Orality / Oral transmission Books
The Natural History Museum Treasures of the Natural History Museum
Book SynopsisA reformatted miniature edition of one of the Museum's bestselling gift books
£12.74
Oxford University Press Keeping Their Marbles
Book SynopsisThe fabulous collections housed in the world''s most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the Trade ReviewExcellent. * James Heartfield, Spiked *Full of fascinating material. * Christopher Allen, Australian Book Review *5 stars: From Greece's Elgin Marbles to Nigeria's Benin Bronzes, archaeological finds from around the world are held by the West's top museums. This is the story of their often bloody acquisitions - and a well argued case for keeping them there. * Juanita Coulson, The Lady *Books of the year 2016 * Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald *Ms. Jenkins has produced a courageous and well-argued book; the howls you hear in the background are those of the contrition crowd. * Wall Street Journal *Brilliant and fascinating * James Delingpole, Spectator *The dubious means by which museum collections were gathered has fuelled the demands for treasures to be repatriated. Surely they ought to be returned? No, says Tiffany Jenkins, a culture writer, and she marshals a powerful case. * Robbie Millen, The Times *This book is both a lucid account of how the great world museums came by their treasures and a robust argument as to why (human remains such as bones aside) they should keep them. * Michael Prodger, RA Magazine *An outstanding achievement, clear-headed, wide-ranging and incisive. * John Carey, The Sunday Times *Tiffany Jenkins applies her considerable experience of cultural policy to construct an excellent survey ... Her level-headed and balanced book ... is a valuable contribution to the international debate, and will enrich audiences and scholars for a long time to come. * Mark Fisher, Spectator *[Jenkins] has much of interest to say about the development of museums and their changing ideology. * Peter Jones, BBC History magazine *a potted but vivid history * Art Newspaper *[An] eloquent defence of museums ... The arguments in this book are well-considered and not just one-sided ... A well-researched and thought-provoking take on a very complex and controversial subject. Using an array of captivating examples, the book addresses a range of broader heritage issues such as treatment of human remains, the role of museums today and how to protect the past. * Lucia Marchini, Minerva *Jenkins does an excellent job of portraying the extreme reactions elicited by repatriation conversations. * David Hurst Thomas, Nature *clear, informed and well-referenced ... Specialists, and anyone with an interest in contemporary culture, can equally enjoy and learn from this calm, balanced and respectful review, in a field distinguished more by polemic than wisdom. * Mike Pitts, British Archaeology *Jenkin's book provides a welcome introduction to some of the questions facing museums today. * William St Clair, Literary Review *[Jenkins] elegantly lines up the arguments and provides careful, balanced and well-considered responses. * Adrian Spooner, Classics for All *Jenkins skilfully critiques the manifold issues that beleaguer museums today. * David Lowenthal, Evening Standard *Anyone who thinks that issues of cultural property and "repatriation" are simple should read this book. Jenkins elegantly explores the complexity of individual cases such as the Elgin Marbles and of the big overarching question: who owns culture? * Mary Beard, author of SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome *The question of how best to protect the world's cultural heritage, and what role museums, nations states, and international bodies play in doing so, or in not doing so, is a vexed one. And in the time of IS, it is an urgent one. Tiffany Jenkins sets out a clear, compelling, and at times controversial case for, and sometimes against, museums as repositories and interpreters of the past in a time of nation building. She argues that we are asking too much of our museums, that we want them to serve narrow ideological purposes of cultural and political identity. There is much to agree with in this argument, and of course, much with which to disagree. That's what makes this book a must-read. * James Cuno, art historian, author, and President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust *Table of ContentsIntroductionPART I 1: Great Explorers and Curious Collectors 2: The Birth of the Public Museum 3: Antiquity Fever 4: Cases of LootPART II 5: Museum Wars 6: Who Owns Culture? 7: The Rise of Identity Museums 8: Atonement: Making Amends for Past Wrongs 9: Burying Knowledge: The Fate of Human Remains Concluding Thoughts Notes Further Reading Index
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Columbia University Press Scattered and Fugitive Things
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MIT Press Curating After the Global The MIT Press Roadmaps
Book SynopsisWhat it means to be global—or to be local—in the context of artistic, curatorial, and theoretical knowledge and practice.In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global—or to be local—in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of locality, geopolitical change, the reassertion of nation-states, and the violent diminishing of citizen and denizen rights across the globe.It has become commonplace to talk of a globalized art world and even to speak of contemporary art as a driver of globalization. This universalization of what art is or can be is often presumed to be at the cost of local traditions and any sense of locality and embeddedness. But need this be the case? The contribut
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University of California Press Destination Culture
Book SynopsisTakes the reader on a journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' this title explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction part 1 The Agency of DisplayObjects of Ethnography Exhibiting Jews part 2 A Second Life as HeritageDestination Museum Ellis Island Plimoth Plantation part 3 Undoing the EthnographicConfusing Pleasures Secrets of Encounter part 4 Circulating ValueDisputing Taste Notes Index
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Manchester University Press The Alderley Sandhills Project An Archaeology of
Book SynopsisSituates the results of traditional archaeological excavations within a broader spectrum of archival sources, family photographs and personal memories of former site residents to consider the dramatic influences of industrialization and subsequent de-industrialisation on the material world of a rural community in the North-West of England.Table of ContentsList of illustrationsForewordAcknowledgements1 The archaeology of community life2 The Hagg of Alderley Edge3 Feeding the family4 Keeping the home5 Recreation and relaxation6 Community life7 The Hagg Cottages: material life of a rural communityBibliographyIndex
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Horniman Museum & Gardens Nomads
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PC-Press TOTM Twilight of the Mortals 2018 A Photographic
Book SynopsisA Photographic Portrayal of the band Killing Joke. Mont Sherar captures the group in all its dynamic intensity and beautifully illustrates their live power. Text from Peter Webb, John Robb, Fletcher Stewart, Rahman Baloch and Sherar himself provide the perfect complement and analysis to the wonderfully crafted photographic images.
£27.00
Manchester University Press Model Experts
Book SynopsisModel Experts is the first book-length history in English of a celebrated collection of anatomical wax models which continues to fascinate audiences and shape our image of the body to the present day. Model Experts reveals the human relationships, controversies, and political projects which surrounded the artificial bodies. -- .Table of ContentsList of figures and platesAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Introduction: Model practices and expertise in state service Part I: Politics of nature and politics of the body1. The politics of nature and the foundation of the Royal Museum 2. Bodies and the state in eighteenth-century Tuscany Part II: Articulating expertise in everyday practice3. Accuracy and authority in model production 4. Model reception and the display of expertise Part III: Changing model contexts and interpretations5. The rejection of the Florentine anatomical models in Vienna 6 Regime changes in Tuscany and at La Specola, 1790-1814 ConclusionBibliography
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AltaMira Press,U.S. The Green Museum
Book SynopsisEnvironmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green behavior and sustainability. The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions, whether they are planning new construction or want to find out how to green their day-to-day operations. As environmental sustainability becomes the rule rather than the exception for businesses of all kinds, this new edition features updated standards, techniques, and information as well as new case studies.Trade ReviewKudos on the second edition of The Green Museum, a pioneering book on creating meaningful sustainability. Packed with even more information and case studies, Brophy and Wylie are expert guides to a greener path. -- Kate Davies, Founding Chair (2006-2008), Green Museums Initiative, California Association of MuseumsThe Green Museum is a must-have comprehensive guide, filled with examples and resources for anyone in a position to bring positive change to a museum, zoo, aquarium, recreational park or educational facility. An essential read, not only for sustainability coordinators or facility managers, but for environmental educators, interpreters, designers and curators. The updates in this second edition make this book relevant in the fast changing world of green technology standards and certification. -- Jose Marcos-Iga, president of the North American Association for Environmental EducationTable of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Idea 2. The Metrics 3. The Options 4. The Message 5. The Money 6. The Journey Abbreviations Glossary Index About the Authors
£91.80
AltaMira Press,U.S. Museums in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisMuseums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases how the use of technology in museums should be understood as factors directly related to the museums' notion of community, local culture, and place, whether these places are in mid-America, urban metropolises, or ethnically diverse and underserved communities. Here, museum expert Susana Smith Bautista brings more than twenty years of experience in cultural institutes in Los Angeles, New York, and Greece to propose a social understanding of why museums should be adopting technology, and how it should be adapted based on their particular missions, communities, and places. This book is timely because we are in the midst of the digital age, which is rapidly changing due to rapidly changing developments in technology and society as well, with social adaptations of technology. Theory is always racing to catch up with practice in the digital age, but theory remains a critical - and often neglected - compoTrade ReviewDr. Susana Bautista’s book will aid us in seeing the power of digital technology as more than a marketing tool or a glitzy program … She will help us understand it as fundamentally related to the organizational mission, goals, and community of museums. This book will become one of our navigational tools, reminding us to think of museums primarily as social institutions. Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture will help us to harness the social networks of visitors and define the social capital museums can provide to the public. -- Selma Holo, USC Fisher Museum of Art, DirectorSusana Bautista elaborates the dynamic transformation underway as museums creatively adopt a wide range of new technologies. Developing the notion of the “distributed museum,” she deftly describes a range of new practices that extend the place of the museum. No longer bound by a physical space, through the use of networks, the web, and mobile media, museums not only serve local communities, but also global ones as well. Bautista’s research is thorough and evocative; her insights accumulate, such that we can better appreciate the changing nature of the museum in a digital age. -- Anne Balsamo, Dean of the School of Media Studies, Professor of Media Studies, The New School for Public EngagementIt is a continuing source of amazement that so few media scholars think of museums as part of the mass media, although they undoubtedly should be seen as such. And at the same time, many museum professionals view the mass media as foreign, and threatening to the mission of the museum. Yet museums are institutions that serve to connect heterogeneous publics with the creative achievements of past and present creators, and this is not a bad definition of mass media. As we move further into the digital age it is also clear that museums, like every other institution in our society, must come to terms with the new technologies that are re-shaping our lives. For the museums that get it, these new circumstances offer both a challenge and an opportunity to rethink their mission, and extend their reach. Susana Bautista’s pioneering studies of five exemplary museums will help us all better to understand the present state of museums’ digital engagement, and to think together about the exciting possibilities that lie ahead. -- Larry Gross, Vice Dean, School of Communication Director, and Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern CaliforniaA very impressive, well researched core sample of the history and state of public-facing museum technologies as of its writing. Bautista correctly identifies the schism between many art museums' on-site and online behaviors, but perhaps prudently stops short of calling for an alignment between the two, preferring to posit a complementarity between chapel-like galleries and the openness and accessibility inherent to the digital space. -- Peter Samis, Associate Curator, Interpretation, San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtTable of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter One: The New Museology Chapter Two: Framing a Changing Museology in the Digital Age Place/ Space/ Experience Community: To Be, or Not To Be Culture Matters to Society Technology and its Implications Chapter Three: Indianapolis Museum of Art Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Four: Walker Art Center Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Five: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Six: Museum of Modern Art Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Seven: Brooklyn Museum Place + Localized Culture The Museum and its Community The Role of Digital Technology Lessons Learned Chapter Eight: Greater Than Five Supporting Place, Community, and Culture in the Digital Age Greater Than Five Marking Place: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Chapter Nine: A Balancing Act Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Interviews Bibliography
£101.70
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Ring Bit
Book SynopsisA definitive reference on the ring bit, considered by some as one of the most humane and effective bits for a horse bridle. From as far back as the fourteenth century cavalry units of European, Middle Eastern, and Asian empires through the Spanish Colonial Period to today, this book offers insights into the history, function, and uses of the ring bit. In addition to the story of the ring bit, examples of early Moorish and Arab ring bits, as well as 16th-century Spanish bits are beautifully portrayed in detail. While no longer the bit of favor, the book documents modern uses of the ring bit in many parts of the world today. This is an ideal resource for collectors, horse riders and trainers, loriners, smiths of all kinds, and historians.
£36.79
Museum of New Mexico Press Folk Art Journey Florence D Bartlett the Museum
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£34.84
American Association of Museums The New Museum Selected Writings Selected
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£42.30
American Association of Museums A Museums and Community Toolkit
Book SynopsisThis toolkit is designed to help museums plan successful museum-community dialogues. It includes helpful hints, logistical tips, and sample documents for organizing a structured and creative conversation among people involved in the day-to-day business of building community.
£34.20
American Association of Museums A Deaccession Reader
Book SynopsisA Deaccession Reader is intended to assist those who are responsible for developing a deaccession program. It includes collections disposal policies from several museums, as well as statements from professional organizations, including AAM, AAMD, and AASLH.
£45.60
Horniman Museum & Gardens Revisions New Perspectives on the African
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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Passionate Curiosities
Book SynopsisThe collection of the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology explored through the people whose intellectual interests and financial backing brought artefacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. The Museum is internationally recognized for antiquities of the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East.Trade Review Talalay and Root address a diverse audience of students, scholars, museum staff and volunteers, as well as visitors, casual and loyal. Passionate Curiosities finds its place alongside a range of other recent publications that illuminate the historiography of the Kelsey, and provides an essential reference on the history of collecting at this important university museum. Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols and Elizabeth Dospel Williams, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.07.12 Table of Contents Acknowledgments Map of the Mediterranean and the Near East 1 Introduction 2 The Backdrop: An Overview of Early American Museums 3 Francis W. Kelsey: Scholar, Collector, Leader A Brief Biography Professor Kelsey’s Acquisitions Birth of an Archaeology Museum in Ann Arbor 4 What Comes Home from the Field (1924–1963) Excavations as Collection-Building Missions Pre–World War II Excavations Expeditions of a Different Order: Post–World War II 5 The Passionate and the Curious, Part I (1893–1927): Collections Acquired in the F. W. Kelsey Years The De Criscio Collection The Dennison Collection The Marburg (ex-Gottschalk) Collection The Todd Collection The Djehutymose Coffin and Related Artifacts The Askren Collection The Petrie Gift The Barosso Watercolors 6 The Passionate and the Curious, Part II (1928–2013):Collections Acquired by the Kelsey Museum The Cesnola Collection The Van Deman Collection The Bay View Collection The Gillman Collection The Goudsmit Collection The Waterman Collection The Bonner Collection and Related Corpora The Adams (ex-Herzfeld) Collection of Late Prehistoric Stamp Seals Individual Acquisitions by Purchase, 1970s–1990s 7 Select Categories of Artifacts Textiles Coins Glass Fine Art Photography and Prints 8 Collectors, Dealers, Authenticity, and Ethical Quandaries Collectors and Dealers Questions of Authenticity Ethical Quandaries Appendix Antiquities Legislation Simplified Timelines for Kelsey Collections Notes Works Cited Concordance of Museum Object Accession Numbers to Figure Numbers General Index About the Authors
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Te Papa Press The Cook Voyages Encounters
Book SynopsisAlmost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa in October 1769, worldwide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Māori, Pacific and Native American objects associated with Cook’s voyages held at Te Papa.Trade Review'... beautifully illustrated with physical artefacts generally attributed to the three voyages... The variety of bait hooks is particularly fascinating... truly superb ...' - Otago Daily Times, 16 November 2020; author feature on RNZ Standing Room Only, 27 October 2020; illustrated feature in NZ Listener, October 26 2020.Table of Contents06 Foreword 11 Introduction 35 The voyages 127 The curiosities 243 Catalogue 264 The Carter collection 265 About the author 266 Acknowledgements 267 Select bibliography 268 Notes 272 Index
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Te Papa Press Hei Taonga ma nga Uri Whakatipu
Book SynopsisA landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Maori society. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the expeditions and details the innovative experiments of Maori leaders in the latter part of the twentieth century.Trade Review“ … a volume that is as much a treasure as the taonga it records.” Kete Books 2021Table of ContentsHei Wahi Ake | Wayne Ngata Page 8 Mihi | Arapata Hakiwai Page 10 Introduction | Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmon Page 12 Chapter 1: Kia Ora Te Hui Aroha | Monty Soutar Page 76 Chapter 2: E Tama! E Te Ariki! Haere Mai! | Anne Salmond, James Schuster, Billie Lythberg Page 116 A Pouhaki for the Prince | James Schuster Page 146 Chapter 3: Toia Mai! Te Taonga! | Anne Salmond Page 154 Like He's Sitting Here and Talking | John Niko Maihi Page 188 My Tupuna are revealing themselves | Sandra Kahu Nepia Page 192 Where There Was an Astronomer There's a Pohutukawa | Te Wheturere Poope Gray Page 194 The Knowledge Inside the Words | Te Aroha McDonnell Page 196 Chapter 4: Oh Machine, Speak On, Speak On | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg Page 200 Chapter 5: The Eye of the Film | Natalie Robertson Page 218 Chapter 6: Alive with Rhythmic Force | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg, Conal McCarthy Page 278 Appendices Page 304 Reconnecting Taonga | Billie Lythberg The Terminology of Whakapapa | Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata Relationship Terms | Apirana Ngata Notes Glossary Bibliography Image Credits About the Authors Acknowledgements Index
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Octopus Publishing Group Ghosts of the British Museum
Book SynopsisAn artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its corridors, galleries and vaults“An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring for attention.” - Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin Of All Witches“Fascinating and illuminating” - Peter Ackroyd“Brilliantly delicate, pointed, shivery... You could read it as a guide to which galleries to avoid - or to where the push for repatriation should be most urgent.” - Erin L. Thompson, professor of art crime at the City University of New York“Achieves a near-impossible marriage between paranormal pop-culture, folklore and hauntology” -
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Manchester University Press Nature and Culture
Book SynopsisNature 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? -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: museum historiographiesI. Museums and disciplinesII. The lives of objectsNotes1. Prologue: the Manchester Natural History SocietyI. The Museum on Peter StreetII. Visitors and staffIII. Transfer and dissolutionNotes2. Nature: scientific disciplines in the museumI. Unified nature 1887–1910II. Expanding collections 1910–50III. Nature dislocated 1950–90IV. Conclusion: cultural cartography and the MuseumNotes3. Culture: artefacts and disciplinary formationI. Culture precipitated 1890–1927II. Nature and culture distinguished 1927–69III. Culture consolidated 1969–90IV. Conclusion: shaping disciplinesNotes4. Acquisition: collecting networks and the museumI. Foundation and empireII. The economy of donationIII. Value for money?IV. The museum and the fieldV. Transfers and loansVI. Conclusion: the politics of acquisitionNotes5. Practice: technique and the lives of objects in the collectionI. Preparing and conservingII. Recording and cataloguingIII. Storing and displayingIV. Conclusion: towards a history of museum practice6. Visitors: audiences and objectsI. Organising the visitorII. Educating the visitorIII. Town and gownIV. Involving the visitorV. The visitor experienceVI. Conclusion: expanding the history of museumsNotesConclusion: the museum in the twentieth centuryNotesList of ArchivesBibliography
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University of Arizona Press Museum Matters
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Reaktion Books The New Museology Critical views
Book SynopsisA collection of essays discussing critical issues of museum history, theory and practice.Trade ReviewA lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking The Sunday Times The essays are all distinguished by their topicality and lucidity Museum News Stimulating -- Richard Cork A welcome addition to the library of Museology Art Monthly The New Museology is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the current debate in museum ideologies International Journal of Museum Management and ScholarshipTable of ContentsPhotographic Acknowledgements Notes on the Editor and Contributors Introduction - Peter Vergo 1. Museums, Artefacts, and Meanings - Charles Saumarez Smith 2. Objects of Knowledge: A Historical Perspective on Museums - Ludmilla Jordanova 3. The Reticent object - Peter Vergo 4. Theme Parks and Time Machines - Colin Sorensen 5. Education, Entertainment and Politics: Lessons from the Great International Exhibitions - Paul Greenhalgh 6. On Living in a New Country - Stephen Bann 7. The Quality of Visitors' Experiences in Art Museums - Philip Wright 8. Museum Visiting as a Cultural Phenomenon - Nick Merriman 9. Museums and Cultural Property - Norman Palmer References Select Bibliography Index
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Reaktion Books Plunder
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking examination of the allegedly immoral provenance of Western museum collections.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Library Lives
Book SynopsisLibrary Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands plots the lifelong love affair between one particular book worm and the John Rylands Library and its collections in Manchester.
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HarperCollins Publishers A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
Book SynopsisThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts?''A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration of nature, history, and ? of course ? the countryside.'' Charles Spencer, author of The White ShipFor most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. We poured our energies into growing food, tending to animals and watching the weather. Family, friends and neighbours were often one and the same. Life revolved around the village and its key spaces and places ? the church, the green, the school and the marketplace.And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold.There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history. From farming tools to children?s toys, domestic objects and strange curios, the everyday items of the past reveal fascinating insights into an often-forgotten way of life. Birth, death, celebration, work, crime, play, medicine, beliefs, diet and our relationship with nature can all be read from these remnants of our past.From ancient artefacts to modern-day memorabilia, this startling book weaves a rich tapestry from the fragments of our rural past.
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The University of Chicago Press A Place That Matters Yet John Gubbinss
Book SynopsisTells the story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. This title focuses on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa.Trade Review"There is something fresh, rewarding, and even courageous in Sara Byala's approach. She not only manages to reconstruct the history of MuseumAfrica but also demonstrates quite clearly that none of the new museums in South Africa today were created without some institutional (or bureaucratic) connection to it." (Christopher B. Steiner, Connecticut College)"
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The University of Chicago Press Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in
Book SynopsisA piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Kept in museum collections across the US, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. This book explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating how Americans view the past.Trade Review"Teresa Barnett is interested in the survival of public things and personal and what they meant to people. Drawing selectively but constructively upon the evidence, episodes, and theories, Sacred Relics is a very sophisticated and polished piece of work, offering the reader a clear sense of change over time in the realm of reliquaries and their keepers. There is no single work like it in US historiography. It will be a must-read in the fields of cultural, intellectual, and social history." (Michael Kammen, Cornell University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Museums and American Intellectual Life 18761926
Book SynopsisExamining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented.
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The University of Chicago Press Curators Behind the Scenes of Natural History
Book SynopsisOver the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural history curator, Lance Grande found that he still had to explain to people what he does. This book is the answer and, oh, what an answer it is: lively, exciting, up-to-date, it offers a portrait of curators and curation like none we've seen, one that conveys the intellectual excitement and educational and social value of curation. Grande uses the personal story of his own career most of it spent at Chicago's storied Field Museum to structure his account as he explores the value of collections, the importance of public engagement, changing ecological and ethical considerations, and the impact of rapidly improving technology.Throughout, we are guided by Grande's keen sense of mission, of a job where the why is always as important as the what. Beautifully written and richly illustrated, this clear-eyed but loving account of the natural history museum and its place in our cultural and conservation landscape will appeal to fans of dusty dioramas and digital displays alike.
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The University of Chicago Press Capital Culture J. Carter Brown the National
Book SynopsisAmerican art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown's achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown's showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes
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The University of Chicago Press Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This powerful book will be of particular importance to those working in museum and tribal settings, but is highly appropriate for anyone interested in cultural heritage and the legal efforts to manage claims for Native patrimony. Essential."--Choice "Colwell ably and sensitively tells the often conflict-ridden story of how and why museums in the US relinquished their hold over this material. . . . Colwell finds himself squarely in the middle of each quandary: a practising anthropologist who works alongside Native Americans every day and is sensitive to their cultural dynamics. Colwell's account favours the Native American perspective--a sensible approach for a book aimed at scientifically literate readers who may lean the other way. Readers will come away with a deeper appreciation of Native American cultural imperatives and the complexity of the situation."--New Scientist "A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Indian artifacts and the study of Indian culture."--Wall Street Journal "Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work. . . . Colwell's book raises provocative questions about who owns the past, and is surely an important work for curators--or anyone--interested in America's treatment of its cultural legacy."--Publishers Weekly "Without ever descending into sensationalistic tones, the author exposes delicate facts about massacres, beliefs, desecrations, and illegal activities, deploying evidence with a measured distance that is difficult to argue against. Native American voices are given plenty of space to support their cases. They emerge as strong and determined and this is what the author wants us to perceive as a way to sensitise the public to the deep ethical implications that these, like many other cases, present us with. . . [Colwell] explicitly make[s] the theme of objects' agency and personhood the core of [his] most poignant arguments about repatriation, ethics, and conservation."--Transmotion "In this beautifully written meditation on the vexed relationship between museums and Native American communities, Colwell reveals as never before the human dimensions of our recent struggles over repatriation. Important, necessary reading for all those who grapple with the essential question of how best to respect and honor the past."--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits breaks new ground. Colwell's dual roles of museum curator and human rights advocate offers a narrative of personal growth and professional practice that couples a humanist's sensitivities with a historian's insistence on primary documentary sources. The resulting breath of fresh air contributes mightily to still-controversial conversations about American reburial and repatriation. The message sounds loud and clear: Twenty-first century museums can indeed stand tall in addressing their own complex histories. Why do some still feel obliged to cover up past performance, to lock out qualified researchers from their archives and to sugar-coat their past in the hopes that nobody will notice?" --David H. Thomas, author of Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity "A lightly written, insider's account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America's culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider's account--just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield." --Spectator "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits uses the story of one museum to show how Native American symbols of identity and ceremony and ancestral bones were initially appropriated as objects of cultural patrimony, but recently have become part of a complicated struggle of ownership. As Colwell profoundly shows, the emotional price paid by everyone involved--Native American, archaeologist, and museum curator--is never small." --Larry J. Zimmerman, author of The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is a sobering peek into the controversy that surrounds tribal artifacts and human remains found in museums throughout the United States. His eloquent narration details several unique cases of repatriation. . . . Colwell has a unique perspective. He provides the reader with a firsthand look at the repatriation process, sympathetically including tribal perspectives--something that few museum directors have sought to do when writing on this subject in the past."--Science
£19.00
Columbia University Press Undiversified
Book SynopsisThe experienced practitioners Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley examine the lack of women in investment management and propose solutions to improve the imbalance. They explore the barriers that subtly but effectively discourage women from entering and staying in the industry at each point in the pipeline.Trade ReviewToday, all forms of inequality are being scrutinized. The underrepresentation of women in investment management isn’t in the headlines, but it’s something many of us in the profession want to change. How can we make progress in this regard? Undiversified by Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley is the authoritative source on the subject and a great place to start. -- Howard Marks, cofounder and cochairman, Oaktree Capital ManagementEven the best investment management firms are struggling to fill more than 20% of their investment roles with women. This book provides a clear diagnosis of the problem and actionable solutions—written by portfolio managers, not outsiders. This book is a valuable resource for women in investment management, those considering the profession, and investment firms seeking to both attract and retain more women. -- Jenny Johnson, president and CEO, Franklin TempletonDespite the continuing dearth of female asset managers, I still hear people proclaim that the pipeline isn’t the problem. Carr and Dudley’s book highlights surveys of undergraduate and MBA-level women that give critical insight into the ongoing struggle to build a robust female investment management talent pipeline and, more importantly, offers suggestions on how to help. -- Meredith A. Jones, author of Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too)This book is the best I’ve read on the troubling issue of gender diversity in the investment world. In my forty-year career, I’ve worked with many women who are extraordinarily gifted. Why aren’t there more of them in the investment world? This book powerfully addresses and answers the question. A must-read for investment professionals or anyone interested in career fairness. -- Jim Ware, CFA, one-time analyst and PM, author of six investment books, founder of the Focus Consulting GroupIn this timely, specific, and actionable book, two fabulously successful practitioners demystify investment management. They show why it is an excellent career for women—and why the industry needs women to survive and thrive. -- Tom Anderson, founder and CEO of Anasova and author of four books including New York Times & USA Today best-seller The Value of DebtCarr and Dudley have written an enormously important and timely book that will have substantial value-added for both investment management and women's accomplishments. Their contribution should be required reading not only for aspiring young women interested in a career in investment management, while they are in high school, undergraduate and graduate programs, but also throughout their careers. I highly recommend this book for mutual fund directors, business school faculty, and business students alike. -- Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Professor Emeritus, NYU Stern School of Business, and director, Franklin Mutual Series FundThe lack of gender diversity in asset management may be the biggest threat to the future of capitalism—Carr and Dudley explain why and what to do about it. -- L. J. Rittenhouse, author of Investing Between the Lines'Undiversified’ makes a compelling case. * Midwest Book Review *Captivating and a valuable reference work. I will recommend it … regardless of gender. The book is highly useful not only to women but also to other groups that are underrepresented in investment management. In addition to thoroughly covering gender nondiversity, it provides a unique overview of a profession to which few have access until they delve into it. * Enterprising Investor *Table of ContentsProloguePart I. The Industry, the Jobs, and the Gender Imbalance1. An Overview of the Active Investment Management Industry2. What Is a Portfolio Manager, and Why Would Anyone Want to Become One?3. Representation of Women in Investment ManagementPart II. Diagnosis of IM’s Gender Imbalance4. Why Don’t Women Choose Investing Careers? The Undergraduate Pipeline5. Why Don’t Women Choose Investing Careers? The MBA Pipeline: Columbia Business School as a Case Study6. Looking Inside Investment Management: Identifying Barriers to Women’s Advancement7. Your Portfolio Is Balanced—Your Life Can Be, Too! Debunking the Work–Life Balance Myth in IM8. The Constellation: Discussions with Successful Women in Investment Management9. How Did We Succeed in Investment Management? Our Different Paths to Successful IM CareersPart III. Solutions to Investment Management’s Gender Imbalance10. Solutions: Widening the IM On-Ramp11. Solutions: Retaining and Promoting Women in IM12. Solutions: The Role of AllocatorsConclusion: Our Money Management ManifestoAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Organizations Mentioned in This BookNotesGlossaryIndex
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Columbia University Press Scattered and Fugitive Things
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Indiana University Press Contested Antiquity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is fitting that archaeologists, whose profession played a key role in the establishment of Greece as a client state subservient to the European colonial powers, should today be a vocal majority in this extraordinarily rich critical review of archaeology's political role in Greece and Cyprus over the past two centuries. Contested Antiquity transcends the geographical boundaries of its subject, offering a comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and meticulously argued account that will serve for years to come as a model for the investigation of the impact of ideology and politics on serious scholarship."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contested Antiquity in Greece and CyprusPart I: Between nationalism, colonialism and crypto-colonialism: Historical perspectives and current implications1. Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece's National "Sites of Trauma"2. Archaeology and Politics in the Inter-War Period: The Swedish Excavations at Asine3. Contested Perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and their Claims on their Past4. Pressed On in Press: Greek Cultural Heritage in the Public Eye: The Post-War YearsPart II: Spatial metaphors and ethnographic observations: heritage, memory and dissonance5. The Gentrification of Memory: The Past as a Social Event in Thessaloniki of the Early Twenty-first Century6. The Oracle of Dodona: Contestation over a "Sacred" Archaeological Landscape7. Archaeological "Protection Zones" and the Limits of the Possible: Archaeological Law, Abandonment and Contested Spaces in GreecePart III: Competing pasts8. Heritage as Obstacle: Or Which View to the Acropolis?9. Eptapyrgio, a Modern Prison inside a World Heritage Monument: Raw Memories in the Margins of Archaeology10. Contemporary Art and "Difficult Heritage": Three Case Studies from AthensEndnoteIndex
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Yale University Press The Texture of Memory
Book SynopsisThere are a great deal of memorials to the Holocaust that occurred during the World War II. This book examines Holocaust monuments and museums in Europe, Israel and America, exploring how every nation remembers the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals and experiences.Table of ContentsThe Texture of Memory PART I Germany: The Ambiguity Memory - The Counter-monument: Memory Against Itself in Germany Today; The Sites of Destruction; The Gestapo-Gelande; Austria's Ambivalent Memory. PART 2 Poland: The Ruins of Memory - The Rhetoric of Ruins - Majdanek and Auschwitz; The Biography of a Memorial Icon - The Warsaw Ghetto Monument; Broken Tablets and Jewish Memory in Poland Today. PART 3 Israel: Holocaust, Heroism and National Redemption: Israel's Memorial Landscape: Forests, Monuments, Kibbutzim; Yad Vashem - Israel's Memorial Authority; When a Day Remembers - A Performative History of Yom Hashoah. PART 4 America: Memory and the Politics of Identity - The Plural Faces of Memory in America; Memory and the Politics of Identity - Boston and Washington, DC.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Scientific Investigation of Copies Fakes and
Book SynopsisThe faking and forgery of works of art and antiquities is probably now more extensive than ever before. The frauds are aided by new technologies, from ink jet printers to epoxy resins, and driven by the astronomic prices realised on the global market. This book aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the subject over a wide range of materials, emphasising how the fakes and forgeries are produced and how they may be detected by technical and scientific examination. The subject is exemplified by numerous case studies, some turning out not to be as conclusive as is sometimes believed. The book is aimed at those likely to have a serious interest in these investigations, be they curator, collector, conservator or scientist. Paul Craddock has recently retired from the Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science at the British Museum, where he was a materials scientist.Table of ContentsForeword;Introduction; Examination: Microscopy, Radiography; Examination: Physical analytical techniques applied to authenticity;Methods of copying in 3 dimensions:Appropriate technology, Moulding,Pointing & Electroforming;Dating 1:Radiocarbon;Dating 2: TL and Dendrochronology; Metals: Compositional;Metals: Metalworking and coins;Ceramics and Faience;Glass and Enamels;Stone and Sculpture;Fine Art:Painting;Copying in 2 dimensions:Printing. Fine Art on Paper and Documents;A History of Patination on Bronze;Gold and Silver in Jewellery and Plate;Jewellery: Gems and Jade;Organics;Natural Materials:Ivory, Amber, and Wood;Organics: Synthetic Materials: Plastics and Textiles;Scientific Fraud and Charles Dawson;Conclusion: Problems of Conservation and Deceptive restoration;Glossary;Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums and Community
Book SynopsisCombining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies, Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum.Focusing strongly on areas such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia and North America to highlight the complex issues faced by museums and local groups, Crooke examines one of the museum's primary responsibilities â working with different communities and using collections to encourage people to learn about their own histories, and to understand other people's.Arguing for a much closer examination of this concept of community, and of the significance of museums to different communities, Museums and Community is a dynamic look at a relationship that has, in modern times, never been more important.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The appeal of community, museums and heritage 2. Understanding community 3. Community development and the UK museum sector 4. Social capital and the cultural sector 5. Museums, cultural diversity and multiculturalism 6. Museums and community relations in Northern Ireland 7. Museums and community movements Conclusion
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University of California Press Possessing Nature
Book SynopsisIn 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums.
£26.10
University of California Press Inventing the Louvre
Book SynopsisFounded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I The Luxembourg Gallery, I750-79 2 D' Angiviller's Louvre Project 3 The Revolutionary Louvre 4 The Musee Central des Arts 5 Alexandre Lenoir and the Museum of French Monuments Conclusion Appendix I Arrangement of Paintings in the Luxembourg Gallery, I750 Appendix II D' Angiviller's Grands Hommes of France, by Salon Appendix III Partial Reconstruction of the Hanging Scheme at the Musee Central des Arts in I797-8 Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index
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University of California Press Artifacts and Allegiances
Book SynopsisTakes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism.Trade Review"An illuminating study that will be of interest to academics and museum professionals working in the field today." Publishers Weekly "Ambitious, well-written, and significant." Library Journal "Experimental - interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, self-critical, heterodox - approaches to art will have to be tried out if an audience for history, which is only as alive as our sense of investment in it, is not to be lost. (For a comparative look at some recent methods, I recommend Peggy Levitt's 'Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display,'" -- Holland Cotter New York Times "Artifacts and Allegiances is a compelling narrative whose insight and passion is well-supported by rich and rigorous sociological analysis, ultimately offering a welcome contribution to scholars across disciplines interested in museums, global politics, and the culture of place." SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Bog and the Beast: The View of the Nation and the World from Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg 2. The Legislator and the Priest: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Boston and New York 3. Arabia and the East: How Singapore and Doha Display the Nation and the World Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Plates Image Credits Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Museum Studies
Book SynopsisMuseum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy and their adoring or combative publics. aeo Brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with historical documentation.Trade Review"Combining important historical texts, classic critical analyses, and current commentary on the museum, this anthology is a unique resource for Museum Studies. It is especially useful in assembling sophisticated discussions of many kinds of institutions, including museums of art, history, anthropology, and natural history." Bruce Altshuler, New York University "The rich diversity of contexts and commentaries in this collection reveals the fascination of the museum not only for curators and museologists, but also for anthropologists, architects, politicians, historians, critics, and poets. The breadth of the survey is a timely reminder that the condition of our museums is – and has always been – a barometer of social attitudes and change." Helen Rees Leahy, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction: Museum / Studies And The “Eccentric Space” Of An Anthology. Acknowledgements. Part I: Museology: A Collection Of Contexts:. Editor’s Introduction. 1. Foreword: Germain Bazin (Late Of L’École Du Louvre). 2. The Museum: Its Classical Etymology And Renaissance Genealogy: Paula Findlen (Stanford University). 3. The Universal Survey Museum: Carol Duncan And Alan Wallach (Ramapo College; College Of William And Mary). 4. Brain Of The Earth’s Body: Museums And The Framing Of Modernity: Donald Preziosi (University Of California, Los Angeles). 5. The Museum Refuses To Stand Still: Kenneth Hudson (Late, Independent Scholar). 6. The Mirror And The Tomb: Africa, Museums, And Memory: Françoise Lionnet (University Of California, Los Angeles). 7. Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective On Museums: Gaby Porter: (Independent Scholar). 8. Museums Of ‘Human Suffering’ And The Struggle For Human Rights: Terence M. Duffy (University Of Ulster). Meditation. 9. At The Holocaust Museum: Alice Friman (Independent Scholar). Part II: States Of “Nature” In The Museum:. Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology. Editor’s Introduction. 10. To The Citizens Of The United States Of America: Charles Willson Peale (Late, Philadelphia Museum). 11. Letter Of 1863 To Mr. Thomas G. Cary: Louis Agassiz (Late Of Harvard University). 12. The Development Of Ethnological Museums: Robert Goldwater (Late Of The City University Of New York And New York University). 13. Museums Of Ethnology And Their Classification: Franz Boas (Late Of Columbia University). 14. The Constitution Of Nature: Taxonomy As Politics In Jefferson, Peale, And Bartram: Christopher Looby (University Of California, Los Angeles). 15. Magnificent Intentions: Washington, D.C., And American Anthropology In 1846: Curtis Hinsley (Northern Arizona University). 16. Ethnology: A Science On Display: Fabrice Grognet (Musée De l’Homme). 17. Ambiguous Messages And Ironic Twists: Into The Heart Of Africa And The Other Museum: Enid Schildkrout (American Museum Of National History, New York, And Columbia University). 18. Thinking And Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory In Exhibitionary Practice: Mary Bouquet (University Of Utrecht). 19. Museum Matters: Gyan Prakash (Princeton University). Meditation. 20. What White Publishers Won’t Print: Zora Neale Hurston (Late, Independent Scholar). Part III: The Status Of Nations And The Museum:. Editor’s Introduction. 21. Selections From “On The Museum Of Art” (Introductory Addresses On The Science And Art Department And The South Kensington Museum, Delivered 1857): J.C. Robinson (Late, Independent Scholar). 22. Museums And The Formation Of National And Cultural Identities: Annie E. Coombes (Birkbeck College, University Of London). 23. Fracturing The Imperial Mind: Eleanor Heartney (Independent Scholar). 24. Presidential Address To The Museums Association, Maidstone Conference, 1909: Henry Balfour (Late Of Pitt-Rivers Museum And University Museum, Oxford). 25. Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case Of The Disappearing Holbein: Jordanna Bailkin (University Of Washington). 26. The Architectural Museum From World’s Fair To Restoration Village: Edward N. Kaufman (Independent Scholar). 27. Addresses On The Occasion Of The Opening Of The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NYC : Robert W. De Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, Elihu Root. 28. Telling The Story Of America: Elizabeth Broun (Smithsonian American Art Museum). 29. Some Thoughts About National Museums At The End Of The Century: Roger G. Kennedy (Independent Scholar). Meditation. 30. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford: James Fenton (Poet). Part IV: Locating History In The Museum:. Editor’s Introduction. 31. Local Museums: Sir William Henry Flower (Late Of Anthropological Institute Of Great Britain And Ireland). 32. Memory, Distortion And History In The Museum: Susan Crane (University Of Arizona). 33. Collecting Ideas And Artifacts: Common Problems Of History Museums And History Texts: Thomas J. Schlereth (University Of Notre Dame). 34. Melodrama, Pantomime Or Portrayal? Representing Ourselves And The British Past Through Exhibitions In History Museums: Gaynor Kavanagh (Falmouth College Of Arts, Cornwall, UK). 35. Reality As Illusion, The Historic Houses That Become Museums: Mónica Risnicoff De Gorgas (Virrey Liniers Casa Museo Histórico Nacional, Argentina). 36. Artifacts As Expressions Of Society And Culture: Subversive Genealogy And The Value Of History: Mark Leone And Barbara Little (University Of Maryland; National Register Of Historic Places). 37. A Sense Of Another World: History Museums And Cultural Change: James Deetz (Late Of University Of Virgina). 38. Mining The Museum: Artists Look At Museums, Museums Look At Themselves: Lisa G. Corrin (Serpentine. Gallery, London). Meditation. 39. Other Icons, The Museums: Le Corbusier (Late, Independent Scholar). Part V: Arts, Crafts, Audiences:. Editor’s Introduction. 40. The Museum As An Art Patron: John Cotton Dana (Late Of The Newark Museum). 41. Aims And Principles Of The Construction And Management Of Museums Of Fine Art: Benjamin Ives Gilman (Late. Of The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, And American Association Of Museums). 42. Museum: Georges Bataille (Late Of The Collège De Sociologie). 43. Conclusion To The Love Of Art: Pierre Bourdieu, Alain Darbel With D. Schnapper (Late Of The Collège De France, Paris). 44. Art And The Future’s Past: Philip Fisher (Harvard University). 45. Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy In West Africa: Malcolm Mcleod (University Of Glasgow). 46. Cultural Entrepreneurship In Nineteenth-Century Boston, Part II: The Classification And Framing Of American Art: Paul Dimaggio (Princeton University). 47. Women At The Whitney, 1910-30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics: Janet Wolff (Columbia University). 48. Zero Gravity: Maurice Berger (Independent Scholar). 49. Introduction To The Museum As Muse, Artists Reflect: Kynaston Mcshine (Museum Of Modern Art, New York). 50. Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics And Experience Of The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum: Karen Mary Davalos (Loyola Marymount University). 51. Resonance And Wonder: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University). 52. Changing Values In The Art Museum: Rethinking Communication And Learning: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (University Of Leicester). Meditation. 53. Secrets Of Encounter: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University). Selected Bibliography. Biographical Notes On Contributors. Index
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Harvard University Press The Magnificent Boat
Book SynopsisGötz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of imperialism as the story of a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. Aly restores attention to colonial conquests and lays bare the vexed nature of ethnological appropriation.Trade ReviewA major contribution to the debate over whether and how to repatriate the countless objects and artworks acquired through dubious means that reside in the museums of former colonial powers…As an indictment of German colonial policies and leading scholars’ complicity in them, the book is unsparing and convincing. -- Joshua Keating * Washington Post *In his brief, powerful book, Aly tells a sweeping history of colonial exploitation by focusing on the story of the journey of a single boat from its birthplace in the 1890s on the island of Luf in the Bismarck Archipelago to Berlin’s Ethnologisches (Ethnological) Museum in 1903. Through the Luf Boat, now a centerpiece of the controversial new Humboldt Forum, Aly demonstrates the intimate relationship between the devastation wrought by markets and militaries and the curators who swooped in to ‘rescue’ the remnants of supposedly dying cultures. -- Erin L. Thompson * Los Angeles Review of Books *The book is not just about museum politics and shifting postcolonial meanings of non-western objects. Museum collections are a metaphor. They stand for a larger, unresolved debate about the moral contradictions facing postcolonial western societies whose contemporary prosperity is rooted in the pillaging of the peoples and cultures they once ruled. If the ethos of the moment stands on injustice, The Magnificent Boat makes an excellent contribution that exposes and reminds us of it. -- David Lipset * Times Literary Supplement *Aly’s detailed account follows German ships as they arrive at Luf Island to punish the local population for an earlier fight with Germans, burning homes and forests, stealing food and clearing land for the coconut plantations where the remaining islanders were enslaved…He draws widely from official documents and accounts where Germans wrote openly about violence in the South Seas. -- David D’Arcy * The Art Newspaper *Concise and convincing, this damning account reveals the painful legacy of colonialism. * Publishers Weekly *Well written and full of disturbing detail—a new and much-needed perspective on an iconic museum object. -- Bénédicte Savoy, author of Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial DefeatA lot has been written recently about looted art, but there’s been less talk about much greater colonial crimes. Aly shows that there’s no separating the two. -- Jörg Häntzschel * Süddeutsche Zeitung *Aly’s entertainingly written and comprehensively researched study shows that the Luf Boat was by no means fairly acquired by the German Reich. -- Andreas Kilb * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *Anyone who sees the so-called Luf Boat in the future will immediately have in mind the murderous cruelty of the Germans. -- Felix Bohr, Ulrike Knöfel, and Elke Schmitter * Der Spiegel *This is a harrowing book, in which readers will learn more about the everyday brutality of colonialism than in any postcolonial studies tract. -- Sebastian Preuss * Weltkunst Online *
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Harvard University Press Prophets and Ghosts
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century “salvage anthropology” preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable to researchers and the public. But many of these objects were stolen, and for decades exhibited as proof of cultural evolution. Samuel Redman details the tangled history and explores how we might contend with such collections today.Trade ReviewA must-read for anyone seeking to confront racist worldviews and make the world a better place for all. -- Paulette Steeves * Science *Redman tells the grim story of decades-long elite capture of Native cultures, while the US government and expansionist industries gained control of lands and waters from sea to sea. Decolonization requires recognition of the colonization process, and Redman’s book is a landmark contribution to that effort. -- Barbara Miller * American Anthropologist *A sweeping overview of the history and continued legacy of salvage anthropology in the United States…Redman’s work connects the complex histories of these practices to their ongoing implications for museums today, offering a major contribution to how we recognize their legacies for today’s efforts to decolonize collections, repatriate objects, and forge community partnerships. -- Reed Gochberg * American Nineteenth Century History *Prophets and Ghosts is a rich and eye-opening book, and Redman does not shy away from taking a hard look at the troubled and troubling legacy of salvage anthropology. It’s deeply researched, beautifully written—a real pleasure to read. -- Lukas Rieppel * New Books Network *Redman nuances the history of salvage anthropology…[and] recounts the stories of individual collectors, humanizing these anthropologists, Indian agents, missionaries, and Native people, while stressing the seriousness and urgency of their often-obsessive collecting practices. -- Klinton Burgio-Ericson * Journal of Anthropological Research *Essential…For any museum professional or anthropologist hoping to build an ethical and progress-oriented career, Prophets and Ghosts is an excellent guide to recognizing and reconciling with salvage anthropology. -- Sara Polk * Museum Studies Blog *An engaging account of the development of salvage anthropology in the United States during the nineteenth century…[Redman] does not shy away from the darker side of early acquisitions of Indigenous people’s culture in American museums. -- Crystal McColl * Fwd: Museums Journal *Illuminating…Prophets and Ghosts would be a suitable introduction for many, and any of the individual chapters would provide a good background of where salvage anthropology came from…and where it could go. -- Jaime M. N. Lavallee * Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association *Prophets and Ghosts is [Redman’s] latest work to examine the intersection between the history of museums and the rise of anthropology as a discipline…He argues that even with the problems inherent in early museums’ efforts to understand race and ‘primitive’ civilizations, their attempts ultimately produced some unexpected and surprising results. -- Robert Cassanello * Journal of American History *Redman has not only become anthropology’s leading historian but also its conscience. Through methodical research and insightful analysis, Prophets and Ghosts provides a window into the motives and practices of ‘salvaging’ cultures often assumed to be on the precipice of destruction. It reveals all the disciplinary successes and failures—and moral contradictions and paradoxes—in this moment that laid the groundwork for how the world thinks of cultures and Indigenous peoples. This is a history that is still resonant today. -- Chip Colwell, author of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s CultureAn original, masterful work on a rich and important topic. Redman looks at the idea of salvage as both preservation and as part of a larger cultural phenomenon—the establishment of a diverse cultural history for the nation—with all the implications this had for the Indigenous peoples being studied and ‘saved.’ -- Nancy J. Parezo, coauthor of Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase ExpositionRedman interrogates the origins of salvage anthropology by delving into the resonance of encounters and collections that, reflecting an emphasis on preservation at all costs, still haunt us today. He effectively exposes the entanglements among nationalistic impulses, colonial nostalgia, and assimilationist policies that shaped museum representations of the Indigenous well into the mid-twentieth century. -- Margaret M. Bruchac, author of Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American AnthropologistsThis book is a gem! Redman traces the nineteenth-century salvage anthropology movement in the United States, designed to preserve the material culture of Native Americans portrayed on the verge of extinction. Especially important are the many negative consequences of this movement, which last to this day. -- Laura Nader, author of Laura Nader: Letters to and from an AnthropologistThe ‘salvage’ of all things Indian was driven by scientific curiosity, but Redman shows how that curiosity was also driven by an insatiable obsession with objects rather than the people who produced them. This book provides a broad, often troubling, picture behind the impetus to collect everything before the Indians ‘vanished.’ -- Joe Watkins, author of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific PracticeRedman offers an impressive exploration of the strange history of salvage anthropology and its efforts to document Native cultures before their presumed disappearance before the forward march of history. With its detailed archival findings, clear writing, and comprehensive analysis, Prophets and Ghosts is a fine piece of scholarship. -- Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian
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Pluto Press The Heritage Machine
Book SynopsisA radical critique of the heritage industries.Trade Review'The Heritage Machine pushes us to question disciplinary boundaries through a well-crafted and critical analysis of 'heritage' that combines introspection with ethnographic approaches. Gonzalez's provocation in this book is radical' -- Dante Angelo, Universidad de Tarapac, Chile'Gonzalez identifies the varied and complex agency of a once despised and now exoticized population against the oppressive backdrop of Spanish nationalism and international neoliberalism. He thereby also throws down a provocative gauntlet to current assumptions in academic heritage discourse' -- Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University'An engaging and theoretically grounded analysis of 'heritage' as a form of relation in fetishist societies. Alonso offers an insightful ethnographic exploration while deconstructing the Maragato myth, one of the 'damned peoples' of Spain' -- Cristina Sanchez-Carretero, Spanish National Research CouncilTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Emergence of Heritage 3. Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Spain 4. The Subordination of Peasants in Maragateria 5. Before Heritage: 'Juntas Vecinales' and 'Tamboriteros' 6. Social Construction of Heritage in the Teleno Military Shooting Range 7. Pseudo-archaeology and the Critique of Heritage Epistemology 8. Return to the Countryside in Prada de la Sierra 9. The Heritage Machine in Val de San Lorenzo 10. The Spectacle of the Other and the Negation of Heritage Bibilography Index
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