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
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
£28.05
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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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
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
£37.50
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
£43.49
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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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.
£19.80
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)"
£35.15
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.
£33.25
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
£18.00
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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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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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.
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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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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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Pluto Press Environmental Warfare in Gaza
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Pluto Press Fifteen Colonial Thefts
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The History Press Ltd Gosport Conservation and Heritage
Book SynopsisPerspectives on the history and heritage of this unique, Defence of the Realm maritime town
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University of British Columbia Press Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes
Book SynopsisCannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world.Trade ReviewThis rich, complex, and compelling book represents a forceful scrutiny of the often polarized discourse on museums as well as an attempt to discredit one-sided arguments that prevent subtle and nuanced understandings of these institutions ... Ames spends a good deal of time challenging the ways people think about, understand, and represent Native art ... Ames raises interesting and important questions for anthropologists., for art historians, and for museum professionals ... The struggle for genuine openness to a multitude of voices is by no means over; we should be grateful to Michael Ames for providing us with such a rational and thoughtful publication which represents a major contribution to that struggle. -- Aldona Jonaitis * Museum Anthropology *Cannibal Tours has quite a bit to recommend it, and to recommend it to professional and lay readers alike. For the former, it offers some new and eminently practical insights not just about the present and future of museums, but about the relevance of anthropology to late 20th century society. In this sense the book is less true to its current subtitle than to the original “Anthropology of Anthropology,” and so is deserving of being read as a critical commentary on where the discipline has been, and where it may be heading. And for the latter, Ames’s well-written essays explain a good deal of what actually constitutes the work of museums, most importantly the production of those “cultural consumables” meant to inform and entertain the museum-going public. -- Barnett Richling, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityMuseum curators, anthropologists, and students of popular culture will find much in Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes to inform and provoke. It will ... encourage readers to challenge the common sense of their own particular situations and apply its lessons to the operations of their own institutions. -- Patricia McCormack * Alberta Museums Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition: Museums, the Public and Anthropology1. Introduction: The Critical Theory and Practice of Museums2. The Development of Museums in the Western World: Tensions between Democratization and Professionalization3. Dilemmas of the Practical Anthropologist: Public Services versus Professional Interests4. What Could a Social Anthropologist Do in a Museum of Anthropology?: The Anthropology of Museums and Anthropology5. How Anthropologists Stereotype Other People6. How Anthropologists Help to Fabricate the Cultures They Study7. The Definition of Native Art: The Case of Willie Seaweed8. The Emerging Native View of History and Culture9. De-Schooling the Museum: A Proposal to Increase Public Access to Museums and Their Resources10. Are Museums or Anthropology Really Necessary Any More?11. World's Fairs and the Constitution of Society: The Ideology of Expo ’8612. The Big Mac Attack and the Anthropology of Everyday Life13. Cannibal Tours, Glass Boxes, and the Politics of Interpretation14. Museums in the Age of DeconstructionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Museums and the Past
Book SynopsisThis vibrant examination of the museum’s role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents.Trade ReviewViviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone have created, for the first time ever, a book that looks at the relationship between museums and the concept of historical consciousness. In doing so, they are pioneering both museological and historical literature, and greatly contributing to an under-researched field. -- Cintia Velázquez Marroni * Museum Management and Curatorship *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Perspectives on Museums and Historical Consciousness in Canada / Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra LivingstonePart 1: Programming Historical Consciousness2 The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Critical Public Engagement / Susan Ashley3 The Voices of the Canoe Project: Weaving Together Indigenous and Western Historical Knowledge Traditions / Jill Baird and Damara Jacobs-Morris4 The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum: A Model Institution / Lianne McTavish5 Public Pedagogy and the Museum: The Canadian Museum of Immigration at 21, for Example / Brenda TrofanenkoPart 2: Measuring Historical Consciousness6 Changing Views? Emotional Intelligence, Registers of Engagement, and the Museum Visit / Laurajane Smith7 Using Museum Resources and Mobile Technologies to Develop Teens’ Historical Thinking: Formative Evaluation of an Innovative Educational Set-up / Marie-Claude Larouche8 Museums as In-Between Institutions: Can They Be Trusted? / Lon Dubinsky and Del Muise9 The Concept of Historical Consciousness Applied to Museums: A Case Study of the Exhibition People of Québec ... Then and Now / Pierre-Luc Collin, Claire Cousson, and Lucie DaignaultPart 3: Instrumentalizing Historical Consciousness10 Controversy as Catalyst: Administrative Framing, Public Perception, and the Late-Twentieth-Century Exhibitionary Complex in Canada / Phaedra Livingstone11 The Gift of Historical Consciousness: Museums, Art, and Poverty / Simon Knell12 Museums and the Responsibility Gap / Robert R. Janes13 Out of the Box and Into the Fold: Museums, Human Rights, and Changing Pedagogical Practices / Jennifer Carter14 Epilogue: The Blossoming of Canadian Museology and Historical Consciousness / Phaedra Livingstone and Viviane GosselinIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Time Travel
Book SynopsisThis fascinating look at Canada’s living history museums – pioneer villages and old forts where actors recreate the past – shows how they reveal as much about Canadian post-war interests as they do about settler history.Trade ReviewGordon’s research is meticulous and his writing exceptionally coherent. Time Travel is an excellent study of how priorities and preoccupations guide historical interpretation, and an important addition to the study of Canada’s heritage industry. -- Ryan Porter * Canadian Literature, 236 *... Gordon pulls together a staggering amount of materials to provide a compelling glimpse into the history of living history. He illustrates the contradictions that abound—the tensions between scholarship and entertainment; between National and multicultural remembrance; between the colliding narratives of settler and Indigenous histories. There is more to be written on this story, and Gordon has made a significant contribution to this area of historical scholarship. Time Travel is a useful roadmap that scholars might utilize to explore the fascinating contradictions and interplay between narrative, history and authenticity, so exemplified in the living history museum. -- Sean MacPherson * BC Studies *As a comprehensive history of public history in Canada, Time Travel is a welcome text. … Time Travel does a wonderful job of connecting experiments in living history with that national past. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Historical Studies in Education *Time Travel is an important book that provides keen insights in the understanding of the emergence of living history museums in mid-twentieth century Canada… In a masterful way, Gordon guides the reader through some of the intellectual debates that shaped the making of the living history museum movement. -- Review by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University Museum * Great Plains Quarterly 38.4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living History Time MachinesPart 1: Foundations1 History on Display2 The Foundations of Living History in Canada3 Tourism and HistoryPart 2: Structures4 Pioneer Days5 A Sense of the Past6 Louisbourg and the Quest for AuthenticityPart 3: Connections7 Fur and Gold8 The Great Tradition of Western Empire9 The Spirit of B & B10 People and Place11 Genuine IndiansConclusion: The Limits of Time TravelNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Exhibiting Nation
Book SynopsisThis exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation.Trade ReviewExhibiting Nation is an accessible book that contextualizes prominent Canadian institutions within the established study of museology, making it an academic contribution that has been long overdue. Its case study approach will be valuable to both curators and academics[...] -- Cody Groat * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface: A Sense of DiscomfortPart 1: Introduction1 Multicultural Nationalism and the Power of Metaphor2 Museums, Discipline, and DialoguePart 2: Feast3 The Limits of Unity in Diversity4 The Royal BC Museum’s Modern History GalleriesPart 3: Spectacle5 The Limits of Equality and Recognition6 The Royal Alberta Museum’s Cultural Communities ProgramPart 4: Border7 The Limits of Universalism and Diversity8 The Royal Ontario Museum’s World Cultures GalleriesEpilogue: Working with the ContradictionsNotes; Bibliography; Index
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Stanford University Press Museums and Memory Cultural Sitings
Book SynopsisThis volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields, the essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions explored, and types of institutions.Table of ContentsContents 1. CRANE SUSAN A. PART I. 2. ERNST WOLFGANG 3. FEHR MICHAEL 4. CRANE SUSAN A. 5. AN ENCAPSULATION COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY PART II. 6. THOMAS JULIA ADENEY 7. WILSON DIANA DRAKE 8. HAMLISH TAMARA PART III. 9. FINDLEN PAULA 10. MARCHAND SUZANNE 11. JOACHIMIDES ALEXIS
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Cornell University Press Voices from the Back Stairs
Book SynopsisExplores the interpretation of servants and other hired household help in historic house museums, one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country. This title presents examples of successful interpretation programs, including those that have made the kitchen and servants' quarters the most popular stops on the tour.Trade ReviewVoices from the Back Stairs will be a great benefit to curators and educators who work at historic sites. It not only provides the latest scholarship on domestic servants but many practical techniques for improving the interpretation of their work and lives. -- Max van Balgooy, Director of Interpretation and Education, National Trust for Historic Preservation
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Getty Trust Publications The Use of OxygenFree Environments in the Control
Book SynopsisMuseums worldwide face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This manual focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the text, along with an index with terms linked to the text.
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Glasgow Museums Publishing Towards an Engaged Gallery Contemporary Art and
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University of the Arts,Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative,US What Makes a great Exhibition
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Battle for the Museum
Book SynopsisCulture and power have been bedfellows since ancient timesin the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests force out patrons and curators, and pressure museums to abandon fossil fuel sponsorship. Campaigners demand equality and diversity, condemn exploitation of artists and staff, and urge restitution of imperially tainted objects.Journalist Rachel Spence has watched visual arts become a flashpoint for today's social divisions. She interviews artists, activists, directors and donors, revealing elitism and injustice. Business and finance launder their reputations throughpatronage, while governments exert authority by weaponising or attacking the artsand gallery-goers and workers mobilise to demand better. How did we get here, and what awaits these institutions?From China and Russia to Helsinki and Brooklyn, from the British Museum to the Louvre and Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi,Battle for the Museumuncovers a dark nexus of capital, art and powerand
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transcript Verlag AI in Museums
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Zoo
Book SynopsisA lively, behind-the-scenes look at just what it takes to keep a zoo running, perfect for sharing with the youngest zoo-goers.The zoo is a very busy place! From early in the morning until evening comes, a lot goes on to keep the animals safe and comfortable. There are kitchens where people prepare the special diets the animals need. And there are nurseries where zoo keepers raise baby animals until they are big enough to go to their exhibit areas.Before the zoo opens each day a small army of keepers, vendors, and maintenance workers perform the daily tasks of cleaning and setting up. Then the crowds flock in The busy pictures are filled with details and action. The writing is crisp, clear, and informative. (School Library Journal)Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children (NSTA/CBC)
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Columbia University Press Profitably Healthy Companies
Book SynopsisProfitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level.Trade ReviewThis book is organizational development for the person charged with developing the organization and initiating change. Organized to enable executives to focus on what the organization needs to do well in order to build and sustain success, it nonetheless provides a strong technical explanation for the actions being taken to implement change. By providing such perspective, Profitably Healthy Companies avoids faddism while equipping the reader to drive change with a good understanding of the principles underpinning the process. It belongs on the executive’s bookshelf. Further, it is an excellent tool for bridging the gap between academic education in organization development and the challenges of applying the subject matter in the field, and thus an excellent book to digest before diving into the business of organizational change. Burke and O’Malley have made great strides in bridging the gap between academic texts and organization/leadership self-help books. -- David Swinford, president and CEO, Pearl MeyerWhether you’re looking for practical guidance for addressing key challenges facing organizations today or a modern primer on the theory behind the practice of OD, Burke and O’Malley offer a fresh and actionable perspective. As we embrace the new realities of what it takes to lead successful organizations, having a clear understanding of which interventions work and why they work is critical. Whether you are a leader, manager or organization development and change practitioner Burke and O’Malley provide the practical guidance you need to make a difference. -- Allan Church, Senior Vice President, Global Talent Management, PepsiCoIn composing Profitably Healthy Companies, Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley have done the impossible—they’ve produced a textbook on Organization Development that is genuinely interesting to read and useful to practitioners to boot! These authors, proven giants in the field of organization development, have brought their best interpretive work into this book. Burke and O’Malley’s love for teaching is evident in the pages of this book, heart and soul. As I read the book, I found myself learning so much new content that I kept texting my colleagues, “did you know this?” I predict that Profitably Healthy Companies will be a modern OD classic, on all our shelves going forward. Aside from being well organized and useful, Profitably Healthy Companies is perhaps the most well-written textbook I’ve seen. Brilliant piece of work. -- Thomas A. Kolditz, founding director, Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, and former head of Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, West PointNo one knows the contemporary management literature better than Michael O’Malley and no one has been on the frontiers of scholarship and practice in organizational development longer than Warner Burke. Thus it was impossible that when these two united, they would create anything but a masterpiece of fresh, practical thought anchored in smart analysis. However, they went far further than providing a “new & improved’ OD book. They knew what was missing and filled the gap. The existing best practice in OD was heavily anchored in outside interventions parachuting into the firm to catalyze change – and then leave. Alas, too many great innovations ran their course and then fizzled often amidst a leadership succession. Profitably Healthy Companies shows how the capacity to learn, grow, change, and evolve must be in the DNA of enterprise. Through examples, research citations, and clear steps, this book provides the blueprint for internalization of continual leading through structures and processes. Thus, instead of hit & run engagements, skill at OD become a vital capacity of the enterprise to read and respond to its changing strategic context regardless whom is the boss. -- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of ManagementWhat makes this book a gem is the easily accessible way in which theory is presented, the extensive examples from a variety of companies, and the clarity of the writing. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars, practitioners, and students. -- John L. Bennett, Professor, Director of Graduate Programs, and Wayland H. Cato, Jr. Chair of Leadership, Queens University of CharlotteTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Organization Development Basics2. Organize for Change3. Anticipate the Future4. Encourage Cooperation5. Remain Flexible6. Create Distinctive Spacesseven7. Diversify and Inclusify the Workforce8. Promote Personal Growth9. Empower People10. Reward High Performers11. Foster a Leadership CultureNotesIndex
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Royal British Columbia Museum Indigenous Repatriation Handbook
Book SynopsisThe first to be created by and for Indigenous people, this handbook provides practical information that will enable each of the 34 unique Indigenous language and cultural groups in BC to carry out the process of repatriation in ways that align with the cultural traditions of each respective community.Trade Review"Our late friend and brother Rod Naknakim said, 'Reconciliation and repatriation cannot and should not be separated. The two must anchor our conversation and guide our efforts as we move forward collectively with common purpose and understanding.'" -- Dan Smith, BCMA Indigenous Advisory Chair, Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre
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Smithsonian Books Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations
Book SynopsisIn these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century, proposing museums make encounters with a variety of visitors more central to their operation.
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