Nature and Culture - Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum

Informationen zum Autor Sam Alberti is Lecturer in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the Centre for Museology and Research Fellow at the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester Klappentext Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them? Zusammenfassung Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum! a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection! and who used them? -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: museum historiographies1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History Society2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museum3. Culture: artefacts and disciplinary formation4. Acquisition: collecting networks and the museum5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the collection6. Visitors: audiences and objectsConclusion: the museum in the twentieth centuryNotesList of archivesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780719089039
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8903-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Lancashire, HISTORY / Social History, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Social & cultural history, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies