Orality / Oral transmission Books
Taylor & Francis Deaccessioning Museum Objects
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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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transcript Verlag AI in Museums
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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 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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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Interpretive Planning
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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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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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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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Cambridge University Press Will Heritage Save Us
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marketing Strategy for Museums
Book SynopsisMarketing Strategy for Museums is a practical guide to developing and delivering marketing that supports museums' missions and goals. Explaining how museums can be strategic and proactive in their approach, it also shows how to make effective decisions with limited resources.Presenting examples from a range of museums around the world, the author positions marketing as a vital function that aims to build mutually beneficial relationships between museums and their audiences both existing and new and ensure museums are relevant and viable. Breaking down key marketing models, Lister shows how they can be applied to museums in a meaningful way. Setting out a step-by-step framework for developing a museum's marketing strategy and for creating marketing campaigns, which can be scaled up or down. Readers will also be encouraged to reflect on topics such as sustainable marketing; ethical marketing; and accessible and inclusive marketing.Marketing Strategy for MusTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Marketing as a bridge – 1. Museums; 2. Marketing; 3. Audiences; Part II: Marketing strategy in practice – 4. Managing and implementing marketing; 5. Developing a museum marketing strategy; 5a. Situational analysis: Where are we now?; 5b. Goals and objectives: Where are we going?; 5c. Target audiences: Who do we want to reach?; 5d. Strategy and approach: How will we get there?; 5e. Tactics and action plan: What are we going to do?; 5f. Resources: What will it cost?; 5g. Monitoring and evaluation: How will we know if we’ve got there?; 6. Planning and delivering a marketing campaign; Part III: Deeper dives – 7. Branding; 8. Pricing; 9. Communication channels; 10. Messaging; 11. Accessible and inclusive marketing; 12. Ethical marketing.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Prioritizing People in Ethical DecisionMaking and
Book SynopsisWhile historically focusing on the object, the study of ethics in conservation has expanded to consider the human aspect of conservation work. This book offers a flexible framework to guide decision-making in line with this development, offering an inclusive, compassionate approach to collections care.This edited volume contributes theories and international examples for advancing conservation practice and providing best practice for the field that centers people in conservation of cultural heritage and collections care. The first part examines the ethical theory that underpins conservation decision-making by challenging outdated norms, introducing updated methods, and demonstrating new ways to approach compassionate collections care. The second part considers the challenges of human-centered ethics in conservation practice, while the final part provides real-world examples and case studies of these best practices in action, including successful challenges to colonial authoriTable of ContentsIntroduction: Purpose and Theory of Human-Centered Ethics in Conservation, Nina Owczarek; Part 1 - Ethics in Conservation Theory; 1. An Analysis of Key Cultural Heritage Resolutions, Documents, Charters, and Legislation, Madeline Hagerman; 2. Examining Ethics from a Caregiving Perspective to Inform Human-centered Conservation, Nina Owczarek; 3. Indigenous Storywork as an Ethical Guide for Caring with Social Practice Art and Artists, Rebecca Gordon; 4. Lessons from the Commons to Move from Enclosure to Shared Stewardship, Jessica Walthew; Part 2 – Issues of Human-centered Ethics in Conservation Practice; 5. Considering the Impacts of Colonization Trauma when Exhibiting Indigenous Cultures in Museums, Tharron Bloomfield; 6. Repatriation as Conservation: Moving Toward a Decolonized Conservation Ethic, Daniel Schwartz; 7. Prioritizing Communities Through Conservation Documentation, Ellen Pearlstein and Linda Yamane; 8. Proposing a Vulnerable and Transparent Approach to Conservation Documentation, Natalya Swanson and Celeste Mahoney; 9. Incorporating Philosophy and Ethics in Objects Conservation Curricula, Lauren Fair and Lara Kaplan; 10. Religious Values as Conservation Practice: Caring for Judaica, Margalit Schindler; Part 3 - Integrating the Human-Centered Approach Applied in Context; 11. Conservation as Activism: Preservation at the George Floyd Global Memorial, Jeanelle Austin and Nicole Grabow; 12. Post-Disaster Cultural Recovery in Haiti, 2010-2021: Reflections on a Decade of Collaboration, Olsen Jean Julien and Stephanie E. Hornbeck; 13. Rethinking "Invasive": Approaches to Informed Analysis and Object Care with Spiritually-Imbued Objects, Marci J. Burton, Christian de Brer, Carlee S. Forbes, and Erica P. Jones; 14. Reconsidering Dust and How Personal Experience Informs Preservation Decisions, Lisa Conte and Kerith Koss Schrager; 15. Reflections on Authority in the Conservation of Indigenous Objects in Museums, Ellen Carrlee, Amy Tjiong, and Adrienne Gendron.
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Museum of New Mexico Press Folk Art Journey Florence D Bartlett the Museum
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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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Massey University Press Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery
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transcript Verlag Spaces for Shaping the Nation
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Oxford University Press Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
Book SynopsisThe natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes - where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre and our thirst for knowledge all blend together. But, as this text shows, there is more going on in these institutions than just smart fun.Trade Review"In Stuffed Animals, the natural history museum is a dimly lit stage for scientific dreams. Inside its cabinet of wonder, the mysteries of the natural world are laid bare and the rupture between the scientific and the sublime is momentarily healed."--Voice Literary Supplement"Rich in detail, lucid explanation, telling anecdotes, and fascinating characters.... Asma has rendered a fascinating and credible account of how natural history museums are conceived and presented. It's the kind of book that will not only engage a wide and diverse readership, but it should, best of all, send them flocking to see how we look at nature and ourselves in those fabulous legacies of the curiosity cabinet."--Boston Herald"Asma has already established himself as one of the most creative minds working in cultural history and the history of science. Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads is an incredibly stimulating discussion of the role of natural history museums in culture and society. It should be read by all, both practicing scientists and philosophers, and the broadly curious general reader."--Michael Ruse, author of The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw"Strap yourself into your seat and prepare for a thrilling ride back into history and natural history through Stephen Asma's time machine--two hundred years back into the history of natural history museums, and two million years back into natural history itself. The weird and the wonderful are on display and visually striking, as Asma traces our journey to understand our origins and evolution, and how we have struggled mightily to convey millions of years of time and change to a species whose chronology is set in decades. A gripping tale with great illustrations that are absolutely necessary--for we are the most visual of all the primates, and there is no greater theatre than evolution."--Michael Shermer, author of The Borderlands of Sciencehistoryh Asma's Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads surveys the presence and evolution of natural history museums around the world interviewing curators, scientists and exhibit designers and providing many observations of the history of these museums and how their contents and approaches have evolved. The result is an excellent and intriguing survey of the evolution of natural history collections."--The Bookwatch
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Oxford University Press, USA Knowing Things Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 18841945
Book SynopsisThis book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and they, and the objects they collected, provide a series of insights into the early history of archaeology and anthropology, as well as a snapshot of the British Empire.Table of Contents1. What is a Museum? ; 2. Museum Ethnography: the Field Site and our Informants ; 3. Participatory Anthropology: Museums as Emergent Entities ; 4. Objects collect people: Past Perspectives on the Mind and the Material World ; 5. Collecting Rhythms: Typological Methods in Archaeology and Anthropology ; 6. Material Anthropology: Generating Knowledge in the Museum ; 7. Beyond the Boundaries of the Museum: Disciplinary Reconfigureation at Oxford ; 8. The Pitt Rivers Museum Stretched Out: Collecting in the Field ; 9. Spatial Transformations: Representing the World at the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Oxford University Press, USA Morbid Curiosities
Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive study of nineteenth-century medical museums, Morbid Curiosities traces the afterlives of diseased body parts. It asks how they came to be in museums, what happened to them there, and who used them. This book is concerned with the macabre work of pathologists as they dismembered corpses and preserved them: transforming bodies into material culture. The fragmented body parts followed complex paths - harvested from hospital wards, given to one of many prestigious institutions, or dispersed at auction. Human remains acquired new meanings as they were exchanged and were then reintegrated into museums as physical maps of disease. On shelves curators juxtaposed organic remains with paintings, photographs, and models, and rendered them legible with extensive catalogues that were intended to standardize the museum experience. And yet visitors refused to be policed, responding equally with wonder and disgust. Morbid Curiosities is a history of the material culture of mTrade Reviewabsorbing * Christopher Lawrence, Times Literary Supplement *a welcome and original addition to the scholarship on natural and medical history ... consistently engaging and accessible * Victoria Bates, Archives of Natural History *an intellectually lively and valuable study that shifts attention away from bodies to those body parts which made up museum collections. * Keir Waddington, British Journal for the History of Science *so this is a provocative, well researched, and elegantly written book. [Alberti] has reconstructed a persuasive history of the changing contexts of practices, meaning, and function of medical museums. This book nicely crosses disciplinary boundaries and will appeal to museologists, medical historians, anthropologists, art historians, and museum professionals. * Shauna Devine, Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Parliament of Monsters ; 2. Situating Pathology: A Cultural Cartography ; 3. Collecting Pathology: Fragmentation and the Traffic in Morbid Flesh ; 4. Preserving Pathology: Craft and Technique in the Medical Museum ; 5. Displaying Pathology: Maps of Morbidity ; 6. Viewing Pathology: Medical Museums and their Visitors ; 7. Conclusion: A Catalogue of Errors ; Select Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Collecting in a Consumer Society
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Taylor & Francis Latin American Art at The Museum of Modern Art
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Private History in Public
Book SynopsisIn small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.Trade ReviewTammy Gordon is an engaging guide through a world of historical exhibitions that remains mostly unrecognized by professional public historians. Whether considering displays in bars or barbershops, tributes to firefighters or 'Freakatoriums,' Gordon has a wry but generous touch as she analyzes the sites on their own terms and considers their implications for more traditional museums. Since Americans are just as likely to seek out exhibitions by the roadside as in a museum, it's time we understand what sort of history they are getting and how it sustains them. Gordon's book is a thought-provoking introduction to how the past gets constructed outside the gallery walls. -- Benjamin Filene, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Director of Public History, University of North Carolina at GreensboroWritten with a sense of humor and blissfully free of academic jargon, Private History in Public is a journey, literally and figuratively, through a past that has not been professionally curated. The past is, as Gordon makes clear, sometimes bizarre, often beautiful, always treasured. * Heritage Resource Center *Tammy Gordon's fascinating exploration of exhibits beyond the world of professionalized history museums leads readers to a new appreciation of the mix of elements in bars, restaurants, and off-beat museums that engages—and sometimes enlightens—visitors. Arguing that visitors to mainstream museums also look for 'private history in public,' she challenges professionals to find ways to incorporate the best of these alternative displays. -- Maria Quinlan Leiby, Michigan Historical CenterTable of ContentsForeword Introduction: Historical Display, Commerce, and Community Toward a New Typology of Historical Exhibition in the United States Community Exhibition: History, Identity, and Dialogue Entrepreneurial Exhibition: Historical Display and the Small Business Tradition Vernacular Exhibition and the Business of History Local History, Global Economy: The Functions of History Exhibits in the Settings of Daily Life
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AltaMira Press Museum Exhibition Planning and Design
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMuseum Exhibition Planning and Design is outstanding, both as a reference and as a how-to guide for the exhibit development process. It is sure to be ‘the Bible’ of museum exhibit design. -- John McDevitt, Vice President of Operations, Please Touch Museum, PhiladelphiaIn this valuable and extraordinarily comprehensive guidebook to the exhibition process, Bogle successfully weaves together the conceptual, theoretical and practical elements of exhibit planning and design. Incorporating numerous personal insights and helpful anecdotes, Museum Exhibition Planning and Design is must for every exhibit professional’s bookshelf! -- Cory Amsler, Vice President of Collections and Interpretation, Mercer Museum and Bucks County Historical Society, PATable of ContentsFigures and Tables Acknowledgments Preface by Jane Bedno Introduction Chapter 1: Phases Chapter 2: Tasks and Issues Chapter 3: Color and Light Format Chapter 4: Shape, Form, and Space Chapter 5: Materials Museum Terms Resources Index About the Author
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic
Book SynopsisThis book moves the field forward in its collective conversation about the interpretation of slavery—acknowledging the criticism of the past and acting in the present to develop an inclusive interpretation of slavery.Trade ReviewInterpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites is a comprehensive ‘how to’ manual. It can be extremely useful to any historical or cultural institution serious about improving its ability to present the topic of slavery in ways that acknowledge its foundational significance in the evolution of our nation. -- Rex M. Ellis, The National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, associate director for curatorial affairsInterpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites provides museum professionals with a roadmap to help them engage the topic with greater confidence and vision. It is thoughtful and comprehensive. Well worth the read. -- Christy Coleman, president of The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, VATable of ContentsForeword by Rex M. Ellis Preface Chapter 1:Comprehensive Content and Contested Historical Narratives Kristin L. Gallas and James DeWolf Perry Chapter 2:The Role of Race and Racial Identity in Interpretation Kristin L. Gallas and James DeWolf Perry Chapter 3:“So Deep Dyed in Our Fabric, It Can Not Be Washed Out”: Developing Institutional Support for the Interpretation of Slavery Linnea Grim Chapter 4:Institutional Change at Northern Historic Sites: Telling Slavery’s Story in the Land of Abolition Katherine D. Kane Chapter 5:The Necessity of Community Involvement: Talking About Slavery in the 21st Century Dina A. Bailey and Richard C. Cooper Chapter 6:Visitors Are Ready, Are We? Conny Graft Chapter 7:Developing Competent and Confident Interpreters Patricia Brooks Chapter 8: Perceptions of Race and Identity and their Impact on Slavery’s Interpretation Nicole A. Moore Conclusion
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Museum Law A Guide for Officers Directors and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUnlike some museum law reference books that relegate cases to footnotes, Professor Phelan weaves them into her chapters, making them an important part of the discussion. This is an effective way to draw attention to real scenarios. In the end, it is the case law that will inform how a decision should be made. Case law gets lost in footnotes, and practitioners waste time looking for cases on point after reading basic summaries in treatises. Professor Phelan’s treatment of the cases prevents this from happening. -- Darlene Fairman, Counsel, Herrick Feinstein LLPDr. Phelan’s approach to the protection of cultural properties is pragmatic and informative honed from her many years of experiences teaching museum and international law at Texas Tech University, research and her previous books as well as her work with the International Council of Museums. Dr. Phelan’s passion is infectious. This book does not disappoint and it will be a mainstay in any cultural property professional’s library. -- Roxanne M. Merritt, JFK Special Warfare Museum, Fort Bragg, North CarolinaThis expanded edition of the now classic Museum Law by Marilyn Phelan is an amazing volume. As legal issues for museums grow more numerous and complex, this volume offers solid direction and sage advice in the areas of governance and collections. Furthermore, it delivers an invaluable international perspective that reflects the growing awareness of international concerns affecting collections in US museums. This thought-provoking volume is a critical tool in maintaining the legal health of a museum and should be consulted frequently. Applicable to all types and sizes of museums, it is a must-read not only for museum directors, but for board members and curators alike. For graduate Museum Studies programs educating emerging professionals, this is an essential and illuminating volume appropriate to a variety of courses dealing with governance, collections, and heritage laws. -- Eileen Johnson, Chair of Museum Science, Texas Tech University and Executive Director of The Museum of Texas Tech UniversityTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF SELETED CASES PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I–OPERATIONS CHAPTER I. MUSEUM GOVERNANCE: LAWS AND PRINCIPLES A. Organizational Structure of a Museum 1. Charitable Trust 2. Association 3. Nonprofit Corporation a. Members b. Directors c. Officers d. Employees B. Governance Principles for Museum Officials 1. Standards of Conduct for Trustees and Directors a. Duty of Care b. Duty of Loyalty 2. Disposition of Assets upon Dissolution 3. Enforcement of Fiduciary Obligations a. Immunity from Liability b. Standing (Right) to Sue c. Indemnification of Directors 4. Federal Regulation a. Self-Dealing–§ 4941 of the Internal Revenue Code b. Excess Benefit Transactions–§ 4958 of the Internal Revenue Code C. Accounting for Museums 1. Statement of Financial Position 2. Statement of Activity 3. Statement of Cash Flows 4. Fund Accounting 5. Museum Collections 6. Donated Services and Materials 7. Governmental Reporting Requirements CHAPTER II. MUSEUM PERSONNEL A. Employment Laws and Principles 1. At-Will Employment Doctrine 2. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) 3. Equal Pay Act 4. Age Discrimination in Employment Act 5. Vocational Rehabilitation Act 6. Veterans Employment Emphasis under Federal Contracts Act 7. Americans with Disabilities Act 8. Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Requirements a. Property Interest b. Liberty Interest c. Procedural Due Process 9. Safety Requirements B. Employee’s Tortious Conduct 1. Negligence 2. Museum’s Vicarious Liability 3. Defenses 4. Immunity from Liability 5. Strict Liability 6. Special Liability Rules for Owners of Land a. Trespasser b. Trespassing Children c. Licensee d. Invitee e. Abolition of Categories 7. Need for Insurance C. Use of Guards D. Use of Volunteers E. Unionization of Museum Employees 1. Selection of a Labor Representative 2. Duty to Bargain in Good Faith 3. Subject Matter of Bargaining 4. Unfair Labor Practices 5. Strikes 6. Agency or Union Shops an Right to Work Laws 7. How Labor Laws Affect a Museum CHAPTER III. OBTAINING AND MAINTAINING TAX EXEMPT STATUS A. Section 501(c)(3) Status 1. Inurement 2. Commercial Activities 3. Involvement in a Partnership 4. Shareholder in a For-Profit Corporation 5. Lobbying Activities a. Definition of Lobbying b. Electing Organization c. Nonelecting Organization d. Exceptions to Lobbying e. Penalty Taxes B. Standing (Right) of the Public to Challenge Tax-Exempt Status C. Museum with Public Charity Status for Tax Purposes 1. Disqualified Person Characterization 2. Section 509(a)(1) Public Charity a. Support Test b. Facts and Circumstances Test 3. Unusual Grants 4. Section 509(a)(2) Public Charity a. Support Test b. Investment Income Tesst 5. Section 509(a)(3) Public Charity a. Organizational Test b. Operational Test c. Relationship with Publicly Supported Charities I. Type I–Operated, Supervised, or Controlled by II. Type II–Supervised and Controlled in Connection With III. Type III–Operated in Connection With 6. Procedures to Obtain Public Charity Status 7. Annual Reporting Requirements 8. Involvement in Excess Benefit Transactions a. Disqualified Persons under Section 4958 b. Excess Benefit Transaction D. Museum with Private Foundation Status for Tax Purposes 1. Classification as a Private Foundation a. Charitable Contribution Deduction b. Excise Tax c. Self-Dealing d. Failure to Distribute Income e. Excess Business Holdings f. Jeopardizing Investments g. Taxable Expenditures 2. Private Operating Foundation a. Income Test b. Assets Test c. Endowment Test d. Support Test 3. Termination of Private Foundation Status a. Termination Tax b. Voluntary Termination 4. Annual Returns CHAPTER IV. FUNDING AND UNRELATED BUSINESS TAXABLE INCOME A. Funding for Museums 1. Federal Funding 2. Grants from Private Nonoperating Foundations 3. Fund Raising Activities 4. Licensing Agreements a. Basic Principles of Contract Law b. Terms of Sales Agreement c. Statute of Frauds (Requirement that Contract be in Writing) d. Rejection of Goods e. Risk of Loss f. Warranties B. Tax Issues Relating to Funding Obtained through Donations 1. Charitable Contribution Deduction 2. Deferred Giving 3. Valuation 4. Disclosure Requirements C. Unrelated Business Taxable Income 1. Income from an Unrelated Trade or Business a. Not Substantially Related to Museum’s Charitable Purposes b. Regularly Carried On c. Exploitation of a Museum’s Exempt Function 2. Specific Exclusions from Unrelated Trade or Business 3. Gift Shops 4. Snack Bar and Cafeteria 5. Parking Lot 6. Travel Tours 7. Sale of Art Works 8. Fund-raising Activities 9. Income from Advertising 10. Income from Sponsorships 11. Trade Shows 12. Income from Investments a. Rental Income b. Royalty Income 13. Income from a Controlled Organization 14. Income from Unrelated Debt-Financed Property a. Average Acquisition Indebtedness b. Average Adjusted Basis c. Debt/Basis Percentage and Taxable Income PART II–MUSEUM COLLECTIONS CHAPTER V. ACQUISITIONS A. Purchases 1. Authentication--Forgeries 2. Acquiring Good Title B. Gifts 1. Legal Requirements 2. Cy Pres Doctrine C. Loans 1. Law Relating to Bailments 2. International Loans of Artistic Treasures 3. Exemption of Loans from Seizure D. Natural and Cultural Heritage Restrictions E. Deaccessioning CHAPTER VI: STOLEN AND ILLEGALLY IMPORTED ARTIFACTS IN COLLECTIONS A. Importation Laws on Artifacts from Other Countries 1. Pre-Columbian Monumental Architectural Sculpture or Mural Act 2. Cultural Property Implementation Act 3. National Stolen Property Act B. Return/Restitution of Stolen and Illegally Exported Artifacts 1. Statute of Limitations 2. Due Diligence Requirement 3 Laches Defense 4. Claims From and Against Foreign Governments C. Mediation to Settle Disputes CHAPTER VII: ARTISTIC COLLECTIONS AND RIGHTS OF ARTISTS A. Moral Right B. Droit de Suite C. Freedom of Expression D. Defamation E. Invasion of Privacy F. Right of Publicity G. Unfair Competition CHAPTER VIII. COPYRIGHT LAWS A. Sources and Extent of Copyright Protection B. Original Work of Authorship C. Artists’ Moral Right D. Fair Use of Copyrighted Works E. First Sale Doctrine F. Means to Secure Copyright Protection G. Liability for Infringing Copyrighted Works H. Application of Copyright Laws in a Digital Environment I. Protection and Liability Outside of Copyright Laws 1. Right of Publicity 2. Unfair Competition 3. Trademarks 4. Misappropriation 5. Trade Dress J. Licensing of Digital Images PART III–HERITAGE CHAPTER IX. NATURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION A. Laws Protecting the Natural Heritage 1. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 2. Migratory Bird Treaty Act 3. Marine Mammal Protection Act 4. Endangered Species Act 5. Lacey Act 6. Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act 7. Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act B. Required Permits CHAPTER X. LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE A. Antiquities Act of 1906 B. Historic Sites Act C. National Historical Preservation Act D. National Environmental Policy Act E. Archaeological Resources Protection Act F. Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act G. National Film Preservation Act H. Visual Artists Rights Act I. Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad J. Tax Incentives for Historic Preservation K. Sunken Treasures 1. Law of Finds and Law of Salvage 2. Abandoned Shipwreck Act L. Native American Artifacts 1. American Indian Religious Freedom Act 2. Archaeological Resources Protection Act and National Historic Preservation Act 3. Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act 4. International Implications of Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act CHAPTER XI. INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION A. Convention Definitions of Cultural Property B. 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 1. Protection of Cultural Property during Armed Conflict 2. Blue Shield 3. International Committee of the Blue Shield 4. Protocols to the Hague Convention C. 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property 1. Guidelines of the American Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums 2. Provisional Adoption by the United States 3. Application of Convention Requirements in Other Countries D. 1972 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage 1. World Heritage Committee and World Heritage List 2. World Heritage Fund E. 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects 1. Return of Stolen Cultural Property 2. Time Limitations for Restitution 3. Innocent Purchaser and Due Diligence Requirement 4. Effective Date for Repatriation of Cultural Objects F. 2001 Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 1. Law of the Sea 2. International Convention on Protection on Underwater Cultural Property 3. Bilateral Agreements APPENDIX A. Conflict of Interest Policy B. Agreement to Hold Harmless C. Licensing Agreement D. Form for Gift of Personalty E. Bailment Loan Contract INDEX
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