Museums - A Visual Anthropology

Zusatztext An excellent introduction to the field ... Bouquet's stimulating book opens the way for a future discussion on the repatriation of objects and it presents many good examples of why we should keep studying museums and their histories. Informationen zum Autor Mary Bouquet is based at University College Utrecht, The Netherlands Zusammenfassung Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this constantly evolving time machine, Museums will be essential reading for students of anthropology and museum studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionMuseums in the Twenty-first Century Stretching The National MuseumA History Of Ethnographic Museums The Ethnography of Museums Practices of Object Display Object and Image RepatriationBibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Mary Bouquet, Bouquet Mary
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9781845208110
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-811-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Key Texts in the Anthropology; Key Texts in the Anthropology; Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies