Museums: a visual anthropology

by Bouquet, Mary

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Title Statements

Full title :Museums : a visual anthropology / Mary Bouquet.

Summary

4e de couv.: 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berg
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 v. (xii, 243 p.) : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780857852113, 0857852116, 9780857852120, 0857852124, 9781845208110, 1845208110, 9781845208127, 1845208129
oclc:ocn858203553
LC Classification:GN35
Dewey Decimal:301.074

Museums in the twenty-first century -- Stretching the National Museum -- A history of ethnographic museums -- The ethnography of museums -- Practices of object display -- Object and image repatriation.

Subjects

Anthropological museums and collections Anthropologie Anthropologie -- Musées et collections Anthropologie visuelle Aspect social Collections ethnologiques Culture matérielle Ethnological museums and collections Ethnologie -- Musées Ethnologie -- Musées et collections Material culture material culture (discipline) Musées Musées -- Aspect social Musées -- Philosophie Museums -- Philosophy Museums -- Social aspects