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Book SynopsisCultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage Trade Review"This book is … about the various ways to engage with cultural heritage in the light of ‘futures thinking’. Through its carefully selected mix of theoretical and practical case studies, it will undoubtedly become a flagship text for anyone interested in exploring the interconnections between cultural heritage and the future." - Antiquity"The book is illuminating and provides a valuable compendium and a fascinating timeline for the last decade of thinking." - News in Conservation, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic WorksTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: Cultural heritage as a futuristic field; Section 1: The future in heritage studies and heritage management; 2. Heritage practices as future-making practices; 3. Heritage, thrift, and our children’s children; 4. Perceptions of the future in preservation strategies (Or: Why Eyssl von Eysselsberg’s body is no longer taken across the lake); 5. The future and management of ICH in China from a legal perspective; Section 2: The future in cultural heritage; 6. Decolonizing the future. Folk art environments and the temporality of heritage; 7. The spectre of non-completion: An archaeological approach to half-built buildings; 8. An archaeology of Cold War armageddonism through the lens of Scientology; 9. Future visions and the heritage of space: Nostalgia for infinity; Section 3: Re-thinking heritage futures; 10. What lies ahead? Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future; 11. The future in the past, the past in the future; 12. Radioactive heritage of the future: A legacy of risk; Section 4: Heritage and future-making; 13. Sustainability, intergenerational equity, and pluralism: Can heritage conservation create alternative futures?; 14. Palliative curation and future persistence: Life after death; 15. The future, atemporality, and heritage: "Yesterday´s tomorrow is not today"; 16. Heritages of futures thinking: Strategic foresight and critical futures; 17. Final reflections: The future of heritage

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Book SynopsisEmotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to understand the impact and consequences of professional heritage and museological practices. The concept of registers of engagement is introduced to assess variations in how visitors use museums and sites that address national or dissonant histories and the political consequences of their use. Visitors are revealed as agents in the roles cultural institutions play in maintaining or challenging the political and social status quo. Heritage is, Smith argues, about people and their social situatedness and the meaning they, alongside or in concert with cultural institutions, make and mobilTrade Review"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In Emotional Heritage, Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany"This well-researched and easily accessible book is major contribution to both heritage and emotion studies." - Sandra Engels, KULT_onlineTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Heritage, Politics and Emotion; 1. Critical realist heritage studies: Agency, reflexivity and materiality; 2. Reconsidering heritage and identity: The politics of recognition and the affective practices of heritage.; 3. Registers of engagement; Part II: Methods and Quantitative Findings; 4. Methods; 5. Overall findings and national comparisons; 6. Genres of museums and heritage sites: Comparisons; 7. Demographic variables and visitor responses; Part III: Emotional Heritage: Themes and Performances; 8. Reassessing learning: Changing views and deepening understanding; 9. Performing reinforcement and affirmation: ‘It just reinforces a lot of the stuff I think’; 10. Emotional banality and heritage-making: The banality of grandiloquence revisited; 11. Intergenerational communication and connection; 12. Heritage and the politics of recognition; 13. Heritage, privilege and the politics of misrecognition; 14. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWriting Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history, bringing together students and specialists from around the world. This new edition includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological chapters and object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers global coverage and discTrade ReviewGerritsen and Riello offer us a rich and eclectic collection of essays devoted to the multiple methodologies associated with the study of material artifacts, as well as fascinating and instructive case studies of particular objects, all well-suited for undergraduate teaching and the training of future researchers. That this book should merit a second, and expanded, edition in so short a period (a scant five years) is testament to the vitality of the field of material culture studies. Noteworthy areas of new attention include the political study of objects, the material history of urban space, and the application of new technologies (3-D printing or big data for example) to the study of material culture. If historians have indeed “experienced a Damascene conversion to material culture” as Gerritsen and Riello argue, then surely they should be credited in large measure for bringing it intellectual coherence and a global reach. This book, now expanded, will be essential reading for those who join them. * Anne EC McCants, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *The volume is an impressive collection of different views on material culture, written from anthropological, historical, and art historical perspectives. It should be an essential text in the appreciation of artefacts, and the role they play in the interactions of cultures over time and space. * Ruth Barnes, Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale University Art Gallery, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Material Culture History: Methods, Practices and Disciplines, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello Object in Focus 1. Broken Saints, House Cats, Other Historical Matter, Dana Leibsohn Part I: The Disciplines of Material Culture 1. Material Culture and the History of Art(efacts), Viccy Coltman 2. Written Texts and the Performance of Materiality, Catherine Richardson 3. Anthropology, Archaeology, History and the Material Culture of Lycra®, Kaori O’Connor Object in Focus 2: Material Culture, Archaeology and Defining Modernity: Case Studies in Ceramic Research, David Gaimster Object in Focus 3: Father Amiot’s Cup: A Qing Imperial Porcelain Sent to the Court of Louis XV and - Kee Il Choi Object in Focus 4: Broken Objects: Using Archaeological Ceramics in the Study of Material Culture, Suzanne Findlen Hood Object in Focus 5: Writing Our Maritime Pasts: The Belitung Shipwreck Controversy, Natali Pearson Object in Focus 6: Identity, Heritage and Memorialisation: The Toraja Tongkonan of Indonesia, Kathleen M. Adams Object in Focus 7: History by Design: The UK Board of Trade Design Register, Dinah Eastop Part II: The Methods of Material Culture 4. Spaces of Global Interactions: The Material Landscapes of Global History, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello 5. Material Culture and Materialism: The French Revolution in Wallpaper, Ulrich Lehmann 6. How Things Shape Us: Material Culture and Identity in the Industrial Age, Manuel Charpy Object in Focus 8: Invisible Beds: Health and the Material Culture of Sleep, Sandra Cavallo Object in Focus 9: Material Culture and Sound: A Sixteenth-Century Handbell, Flora Dennis Object in Focus 10: Interwoven Knowledge: The Understanding and Conservation of Three Carpets, Jessica Hallett and Raquel Santos Object in Focus 11: Lustrous Things: Luminosity and Reflection before the Light Bulb, Ann Smart Martin Object in Focus 12: Cosmopolitan Relationships in the Crossroads of the Pacific Ocean, Christina Hellmich Object in Focus 13: Digital Microscopy and Early Modern Embroidery, Stefan Hanß Object in Focus 14: Objects of Emotions: The London Foundling Hospital Tokens, 1741-60, John Styles Object in Focus 15: Time, Wear and Maintenance: The Afterlife of Things, Victoria Kelley Part III: The Preservation and Interpretation of Material Culture 7. The Return of the Wunderkammer: Material Culture in the Museum 225, Ethan W. Lasser 8. Handle with Care: The Future of Curatorial Expertise, Glenn Adamson 9. As Seen on the Screen: Material Culture, Historical Accuracy and the Costume Drama, Hannah Greig Object in Focus 16: Europe 1600-1800 in a Thousand Objects, Lesley Ellis Miller Object in Focus 17: Reading and Writing the Restoration History of an Old French bureau, Carolyn Sargentson Object in Focus 18: Objects of Empire: Museums, Material Culture, and Histories of Empire, John McAleer Object in Focus 19: The Lost Heritage of China: Dismantling Beijing, Digitizing Beijing, Di Lou Object in Focus 20: ‘Black Gold’: Industrial Heritage of the Nineteenth-century Ruhr Area, Christian Kleinschmidt Object in Focus 21: Indigeneity and Race and the Politics of Museum Collections, Beverly Lemire Object in Focus 22: Acts of creation: debating Indigenous American repatriation from Britain, Jack Davy Index

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Book SynopsisThe tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. This book offers an overview of these pioneering practices through a specifically pedagogical lens, fostering an appreciation of the diversity and distinctiveness of contemporary archaeology and providing an evidence base for course proposals and curriculum design.Although research in the field is well established and vibrant, making critical contributions to wider debates around issues such as homelessness, migration and the refugee crisis, and legacies of war and conflict, the teaching of contemporary archaeology in universities has until recently been relatively limited in comparison. This selection of carefully curated case studies from as far afield as Orkney, Iran and the USA is intended as a resource and an inspiration for both teachers and studentTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Pedagogy in Contemporary Archaeology (Gabriel Moshenska, University College London, UK) I. Course and Curriculum Development 1. Contemporary Art and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Practice in the Digital University (Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK) 2. Documenting Wesley College: A Mildly Anarchist Teaching Encounter (William Caraher, University of North Dakota, USA) 3. Teaching Contemporary Archaeology: The Durham Experience (David Petts, Durham University, UK) II. Pedagogical Practices 4. The Henge with a Postcode: The Benefits of Contemporary Archaeology Fieldtrips (Kenneth Brophy, University of Glasgow, UK) 5. Draw your Phone: The Cellphone as an Intimate, Everyday Artefact (Colleen Morgan, University of York, UK) 6. Walking and Talking Around the Bombsites of Bloomsbury (Gabriel Moshenska, University College London, UK) III. Working with Communities 7. Over, Under, and In Between: Collaborative Learning from Landscapes using Contemporary Archaeology (April M. Beisaw, Vassar College, USA) 8. Teaching and Learning Difficult Pasts of the Twentieth Century through Community Archaeology (Tiina Äikäs, Oula Seitsonen, Tuuli Matila, and Vesa-Pekka Herva, University of Oulu, Finland) 9. Beyond Zinjanthropus: Historical Archaeology Pedagogy in Tanzania (Nancy Rushohora, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) IV. The Personal and the Political 10. ‘We Want School!’ Teaching and Learning Contemporary Archaeology with Displaced People in Anarchist-Adjacent Spaces in Athens, Greece (Rachael Kiddey, University of Cambridge, UK) 11. Education is Life: Collective Experiences of Practicing the Archaeology of the Contemporary Past in a Conservative Atmosphere (Maryam Dezhamkhooy, Heidelberg University, Germany and Leila Papoli-Yazdi, Malmö University, Sweden) 12. Archaeologies of the Contemporary World – A Chancy Business? (Greg Bailey, Independent Researcher, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisUpdated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the voTable of ContentsAlternative Taxonomy xi Notes on Contributors xvi Acknowledgments xxiv Introduction to the Second Edition: Museum/Studies and the “Eccentric Space” of an Anthology – Revisited 1 Bettina M. Carbonell Part I Museology: A Collection of Contexts 15 Introduction 15 1 From The Museum Age: Foreword 19 Germain Bazin 2 The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy 23 Paula Findlen 3 The Universal Survey Museum 46 Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach 4 Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums 62 Gaby Porter 5 Universal Museums, Museum Objects and Repatriation: The Tangled Stories of Things 73 Neil G.W. Curtis 6 Narrativity and the Museological Myths of Nationality 82 Donald Preziosi 7 Museums, Civic Life, and the Educative Force of Remembrance 92 Roger I. Simon 8 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility 97 Paul Williams 9 At The Holocaust Museum 116 Alice Friman Part II States of “Nature” in the Museum: Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology 117 Introduction 117 10 To the Citizens of the United States of America 123 Charles Willson Peale 11 Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary 125 Louis Agassiz 12 Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification 126 Franz Boas 13 “Magnificent Intentions”: Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 129 Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr. 14 From Natural History to Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science and Nature 142 Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain 15 The Development of Ethnological Museums 158 Robert Goldwater 16 Ethnology: A Science on Display 163 Fabrice Grognet 17 Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum 168 Enid Schildkrout 18 Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice 177 Mary Bouquet 19 The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory 189 Françoise Lionnet 20 From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum 199 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 21 The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford 206 James Fenton Part III The Status of Nations and the Museum 209 Introduction 209 22 From On the Museum of Art: An Address 213 J. C. Robinson 23 Presidential Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 218 Henry Balfour 24 Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 10, 1924) 225 Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, and Elihu Root 25 The Architectural Museum from World’s Fair to Restoration Village 230 Edward N. Kaufman 26 Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal?: Representing Ourselves and the British Past through Exhibitions in History Museums 244 Gaynor Kavanagh 27 Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History 250 Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little 28 Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities 260 Annie E. Coombes 29 Museums, National, Postnational and Transcultural Identities 273 Sharon J. Macdonald 30 Architecture and the Scene of Evidence 287 Catherine Ingraham 31 Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century 294 Roger G. Kennedy Part IV Histories and Identities in the Museum 299 Introduction 299 32 Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum 303 Susan A. Crane 33 Museum Matters 317 Gyan Prakash 34 Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums 324 Mónica Risnicoff de Gorgas 35 Mining the Museum: Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves 329 Lisa G. Corrin 36 The Afterlife of Lynching: Exhibitions and the Re-composition of Human Suffering 347 Bettina Messias Carbonell 37 Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum 357 Karen Mary Davalos 38 Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania 373 Sidney Moko Mead 39 Museums and the Native Voice 377 Gerald McMaster 40 Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past 383 Sean Kingston 41 Emerging Discourses around Identity in New South African Museum Exhibitions 397 Crain Soudien Part V Art, Artifacts, and the Deployment of Objects in the Museum 407 Introduction 407 42 Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art 413 Benjamin Ives Gilman 43 The Museum as an Art Patron 421 John Cotton Dana 44 Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art 425 Paul DiMaggio 45 Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein 442 Jordanna Bailkin 46 Conclusion to The Love of Art 453 Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel, with Dominique Schnapper 47 Art and the Future’s Past 457 Philip Fisher 48 Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa 473 Malcolm McLeod 49 Women at the Whitney, 1910–30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics 478 Janet Wolff 50 From The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect: Introduction 491 Kynaston McShine 51 Zero Gravity 503 Maurice Berger 52 Museums and Globalization 510 Saloni Mathur 53 Changing Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning 517 Eilean Hooper-Greenhill 54 Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National Museum of the American Indian 533 Gwyneira Isaac Part VI In and Beyond the Museum: Relationships, Interactions, Responsibilities 547 Introduction 547 55 Museums, Corporatism and the Civil Society 549 Robert R. Janes 56 Museums as Agents of Social Inclusion 562 Richard Sandell 57 Partnership in Museums: A Tribal Maori Response to Repatriation 575 Paul Tapsell 58 Interactivity in Museums: The Politics of Narrative Style 580 Andrea Witcomb 59 Speaking about Museums: A Meditation on Language 590 Stephen E. Weil Selected Bibliography 599 Source Acknowledgments 615 Index 620

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Book SynopsisA reformatted miniature edition of one of the Museum's bestselling gift books

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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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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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Book SynopsisA New Role for Museum Educators shows how learning happens in communities, how volunteers and professionals approach their work, the underlying principles and philosophies that guide the work of museum education, and how these practices are always evolving to remain relevant. Museum education in its most expansive definition is about communicating messages, creating learning experiences, and, at its most aspirational, promoting human development for people of all backgrounds, abilities, and circumstances. This edited volume revisits the legacy of museum education practices, reflecting on the changing context of community and the role of cultural institutions, and provides insights into new directions that museums can take with a visitor-centered mindset. It provides foundational concepts around educational philosophies that guide practice, applied methods and approaches for implementation, and the ethos of an educational institution intended to support community learTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part One: Museum Educators and Education and their Purpose Past, Present, and Future – 2. Relevance, Inclusion, and Interaction in Museums from Peale’s Perspective: Not Yet Enough; 3. Education and Discipline: Deviant Objects and Dissenting Bodies at the Horniman Museum; 4. Tilden, Now and Then; 5. Why Not a Temple AND a Forum? 6. Teaching in the Art Museum: A Classic Reframed; 7. Learningscapes and the Visitor Experience; 8. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Museum Education; Part Two: Essential Methods and Approaches – 9. Designing Experiences for Audience Diversity: A guide for audience-centered program design; 10. Meeting the Needs of All Museum Visitors through Family-Friendly Design; 11. Tools for Interactive Inspiration: Beyond Buttons and Flip Labels; 12. Experiencing Objects in the Museum; 13. Selecting, Implementing, and Adapting Educational Methodologies to Support Interpretation; 14. Scaling the Ivory Tower—Creating and Managing Collaboration with the University; 15. Museum Educators as Curricular Innovators: Women & the American Story, a Case Study; 16. Amateur, Audience, Agent: Participatory Culture and Docent Roles; 17. At the Crossroads of Tradition and Transformation: Docents in the Art Museum; Part Three: The Museum Educator Mindset in the Community and in the Field – 18. Art on the Mind: Creative Aging at the Frye Art Museum; 19. Museums as Sites for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teacher Preparation; 20. How do we want to live? Collaborative curation of a special exhibition on sustainable futures at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum Frankfurt; 21. Claiming Space, Cultivating Community: Latinx and Asian American Ethnically Specific Museums in a Global City; 22. Finding One’s Way as a Novice Art Museum Educator; 23. Reclaiming our Peace: Preparing for a Career as BIPOC Museum Educators; 24. Learning Frameworks and the Museum Educator’s Role: Strategies for Long-term Relevance; 25. Gathering Together with Purpose: A New Framework for Museum Education.

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Book SynopsisThe Museum in Asia advances an understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and frameworks through which museum development can be analysed and understood.Informed by the key theoretical tenets of critical museology and heritage studies, this volume seeks to deconstruct the idea of museology and the museum phenomenon in East, South and Southeast Asia to identify common themes and trends unique to Asia. Drawing on case studies from ten different countries in Asia, including China and India, it proffers a set of analytical tools to think through how we can understand and conceptualise the study of museums and museology in Asia. Contributions to this edited volume are drawn from both Asian and Western academic contexts, thus offering both âinsideâ and âoutsideâ perspectives on the museum phenomenon in Asia.The Museum in Asia is the first academic book to explore the museum phenomenon in Asia from theoretical perspectives informed by critical museology and heritage studies, making it an essential text for the teaching of courses relating to museum studies, cultural heritage studies or Asian studies. Academics, students and professionals who are interested in learning more about the theory behind the museum phenomenon in Asia will find this book to be a useful resource.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that underpins this practice, with a view to outlining new roles for museums within community health and social care.This book engages with the recent growing focus on community participation in museum activities, notably in the area of health and wellbeing. It explores this theme through an analysis of the practices of community engagement workers at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in the UK. It examines how this work is operationalised and valued in the museum, and the institutional barriers to this practice. It presents the practices of care that shape community-led exhibitions, and community engagement projects involving health and social care partners and their clients. Drawing on the ethics of care and geographies of care literatures, this text provides readers with novel perspectives for transforming the museum into Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: The Participatory Turn in Museums 2. The Problem of Engagement Part 2: The Institutional Life of Community Engagement Workers 3. The Language of Community Engagement 4. Managing Community Engagement Part 3: The Emotional Life of Community Engagement Workers 5. Community Engagement as Care Work 6. Curatorial Work and Care Part 4: Social Care in The Museum 7. The Museum as a Space of Social Care

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Book SynopsisThe conservation of skin, leather and related materials is an area that, until now, has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite and Roy Thomson, of the Leather Conservation Centre, have prepared a text which is both authoritative and comprehensive, including contributions from the leading specialists in their fields, such as Betty Haines, Mary Lou Florian, Ester Cameron and Jim Spriggs.The book covers all aspects of Skin and Leather preservation, from Cuir Bouillie to Bookbindings. There is significant discussion of the technical and chemical elements necessary in conservation, meaning that professional conservators will find the book a vital part of their collection. As part of the Butterworth-Heinemann Black series, the book carries the stamp of approval of the leading figures in the world of Conservation and Museology, and as such it is the only publication available on the topic carrying this immediate Table of ContentsIntroduction; Dedication; Foreward; The nature and properties of leather; Collagen: the leather making protein; The fibre structure of leather; The chemistry of tanning materials; The mechanisms of deterioration in leather; Testing leathers and related materials; The manufacture of leather; The social position of leatherworks; Gilt leather; Cuir bouilli; The tools and techniques of leathermaking; General principles of conservation; Materials and techniques: past and present; Taxidermy; Furs and furriery: history, techniques and conservation; The conservation of exotic, feathered and aquatic skins; Ethnographic leather and skin products; Collagen products, glues, gelatine, gut membrane and sausage casings; The manufacture of parchment; The conservation of parchment; The conservation of leather bookbindings: a mosaic of contemporary techniques; The conservation of archaeological leather; Case histories

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Honeâs 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014. Trade Review"All in all, Gahtan and Pegazzano have put together an excellent volume in which the authors have contributed a great deal of valuable art historical and museological content for our consideration. It is a book that will undoubtedly inspire further research by others, stimulate scholarly discourse, and lead to future publications of import."-Journal of Art Historiography

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Book SynopsisPractitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field. Summarising the major changes that have taken place over the last two decades, the book explores ongoing debates and changes in thinking about best practice.Drawing on the author's own experience of operationalising the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in a variety of contexts, Orr also incorporates international case studies from practitioners and provides valuable insights about best practices. Demonstrating that the top-down, state-driven hierarchy for the safeguarding of heritage is starting to shift to a model of shared ownership and values driven by communities and practitioners, the book shows that the notion of the expert' is also diversifying to include other forms of transmission of traditional knowledge. Orr argues that these different perspectives provide a platform to enrich undeTable of ContentsChapter One – Introduction; Chapter Two - UNESCO, 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the Role of NGOs; Chapter Three – UNESCO Conventions and Recent Changes in the 2003 Convention; Chapter Four - Intellectual Property Rights: Commodification, Creative Industry, and Inclusive Growth; Chapter Five- Sustainable Development and ICH; Chapter Six- The Challenges of Putting the Safeguarding of ICH into Practice; Chapter Seven- Safeguarding ICH in Emergencies; Chapter Eight - ICH in the Museum Context; Chapter Nine- ICH: Repatriation and Decolonisation; Chapter Ten- Final Thoughts on ICH and Our Shared Future; Useful Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries' shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations.At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public's evolving social and political attitudes, the museum's 19931994 The Peopling of London' exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums' role in enacting change in the public's understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London's theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Origin Story 1826-1976 1. Introduction: Museums and Empire 2. Prelude to the Museum of London, its origins in the Guildhall and London Museums 1826-1976 3. Empire at the Museum of London, 1976 Part 2: The ‘Peopling of London’ 1993-1994 4. The ‘Peopling of London’ 1989-1993 Concept and Approach 5. The ‘Peopling of London’ 1993-1994 Exhibition and Displays 6. The ‘Peopling of London’ Catalogue and Educational Resources Part 3: Reception and Legacy of ‘Peopling’ 1994-2007 7. Understanding Visitor Responses 8. The Spirit of ‘Peopling’ 1993-2007, Legacies and Echoes 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMuseums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement with this field from a museum studies perspective. The essential thesis of the book is that well-being is a collective action.The book utilises the Five Ways to Well-being as a model: Connect, Be Active, Keep Learning, Give and Take Notice. Each of these Ways are explored through a specific museum object illustrating the important role collections can play in museum well-being. The book considers how museum well-being, and the austerity project became entwined, and how the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged growth in this field. The book explores such diverse topics as walking, slow art, social capital, Virginia Woolf, body positivity, collective joy, identity, art therapy, yoga, Squid Game, Effective Altruism, mindfulness, gift exchange, the Preston model, the limits of data, sketching, photography, inclusive spaces, and workplace well-being. The bookTable of Contents01 Introduction; 02 Why Well-being Now?; 03 Museums as Spaces of Well-being; 04 Work and the Limitations of Well-being; 05 Introduction to the Five Ways to Well-being Toolkit; 06 Connect; 07 Be Active; 08 Keep Learning; 09 Give; 10 Take Notice; 11 Conclusion: So where to start?; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on the efforts that seek to safeguard them. Exploring a global range of case studies, the book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with intangible cultural heritage and presents a rich picture of the geographic, socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, public servants, professionals, students and community members, this volume is also deeply enhanced by an interdisciplinary approach which draws on the theories and practices of heritage and museum studies, anthropology, folklore stuTrade Review"It is a most welcome addition to literature, and a must-have for all who want to deepen their understanding of the scholarly research into and safeguarding practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage. (...) With the publication of this Routledge Companion, Intangible Cultural Heritage has certainly reached a new level of scholarly recognition. And that is a very good thing."- Steven Engelsman, Director, Weltmuseum Wien, Austria"The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritgae provides asnapshop- or rather, a whole picture album- of the evolution of a profoundly important cultural policiy and paradigm[...] The editors have assembled here a massive and varied set of essays- 38 individual chapters written by 54 authors, including anthropologists, folklorists, legals scholars, museum professionals, ethomusicologists, and community members."- Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Michelle Stefano and Peter DavisA Decade Later: Critical Reflections on the UNESCO-ICH Paradigm1. Development of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention: Creating a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake2. The Examination of Nomination Files under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Rieks Smeets and Harriet Deacon3. A Conversation with Richard Kurin4. Placing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Owing a Tradition, Affirming Sovereignty: the Role of Spatiality in the Practice of the 2003 Convention Chiara Bortolloto5. Is Intangible Cultural Heritage an Anthropological Topic? Towards Interdisciplinarity in France Christian Hottin and Sylvie Grenet6. The Impact of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on National Policy-making: Developing a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet BlakeReality Check: The Challenges Facing ICH Safeguarding7. From the Bottom Up: the Identification and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guyana Aron Mazel, Gerard Corsane, Raquel Thomas and Samantha James8. Making the Past Pay? Intangible (Cultural) Heritage in South Africa and Mauritius Rosabelle Boswell9. A Conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cuba10. The Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China Tracey L-D Lu11. Ageing Musically: Tangible Sites of Intangible Cultural Heritage Bradley Hanson12. Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic: Between National and Local Heritage Petr Janeček13. Damming Ava Mezin: Challenges to Safeguarding Minority Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey Sarah Elliott14. Documenting and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Experience in Scotland Alison M

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Book SynopsisIn a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place.This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government.  For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to tTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I History and Theory; Chapter 1 The Formation of the Museum; Chapter 2 The Exhibitionary Complex; Chapter 3 The Political Rationality of the Museum; Part II Policies and Politics; Chapter 4 Museums and ‘The People’; Chapter 5 Out of Which Past?; Chapter 6 Art And Theory; Part III Technologies of Progress; Chapter 7 Museums and Progress; Chapter 8 The Shaping of Things to Come Expo ’88; Chapter 9 A Thousand and One Troubles;

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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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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism. This handbook is split into five distinct sections. The first section covers past and present debates regarding definitions, theories, and concepts related to religious and spiritual tourism. Subsequent sections focus on the supply and demand aspects of religious and spiritual tourism markets, and examine issues related to the management side of these markets around the world. Areas under examination include religious theme parks, the UNESCO branding of religious heritage, gender and performance, popular culture, pilgrimage, environmental impacts, and fear and terrorism, among many others. The final section explores emerging and future directions in religious and spiritual tourism, and proposes an agenda for further research. Interdisciplinary in coverage and international inTable of Contents1. Investigating the intersections between religion, spiritualty, and tourism. Section I: Definitions, Theories, and Concepts. 2. Pilgrimages, journeys, and outings: The historical mobilities of religious praxis. 3. The political economy of religious and spiritual tourism. 4. The religious and spiritual dimensions of leisure travel. 5. Religion, spirituality, and wellness tourism. 6. A new spiritual marketplace: Comparing New Age and New Religious Movements in an age of spiritual and religious tourism. 7. Fan pilgrimage, religion, and spirituality. 8. Secular pilgrimages in a post-secular world? Experiential journeys and hope for the future. 9. Pilgrimage, tourism, and peace building. Section II: Spaces and Places. 10. Environment as a sacred space: Religious and spiritual tourism and environmental concerns in Hinduism. 11. Tourism and spirituality: Green places, blue spaces, and beyond. 12. The religious and spiritual appeal of national parks. 13. Religious theme parks. 14. Religious and spiritual retreats. 15. Religious and spiritual world heritage sites. Section III: Motivations, Experiences, and Performance. 16. Travel motivations of pilgrims, religious tourists, and spirituality seekers. 17. Volunteer tourism: A spiritual and religious journey of meaning, transcendence, and connectedness. 18. Experiences along the Camino de Santiago. 19. Gender and performance in the context of religious and spiritual tourism: pilgrimage and sacred mobilities. 20. Issues of authenticity in religious and spiritual tourism. 21. Aftermath: Calculating the effects of pilgrimage. Section IV: Managing religious and spiritual tourism. 22. Socio-political and economic implications of religious and spiritual tourism. 23. The environmental impacts of religious and spiritual tourism. 24. Marketing religious and spiritual tourism experiences. 25. Managing religious and spiritual tourism sites. 26. Managing complex issues in religious and spiritual events, festivals and celebrations. 27. The use of information and communication technologies in religious tourism. 28. Interpreting religious and spiritual tourism destinations/sites. 29. Coexistence between tourists and monks: Managing temple-stay tourism at Koyasan, Japan. 30. Food and religion: Tourism perspectives. 31. Safety, fear, risk, and terrorism in the context of religious tourism. 32. Religious and spiritual tourism: Sustainable development perspectives. Section V: Emerging and Future Directions. 33. Religion, spiritualty, and tourism: Emerging and future directions.

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the challenges of economic, financial and institutional feasibility, it reveals how failing to address these aspects has undermined potential solutions from both technicians and heritage professionals.With a deep connection to the city over centuries, the Arsenal was the very basis of La Serenissima's sea power, enabling its economic expansion. Later, it maintained a vital military function through shipbuilding until World War II. But the slow process of abandonment of the traditional site's uses and spaces continues to pose questions regarding its preservation and re-use. Drawing on original research from urban planners, architects and historians, the book provides a critical investigation into the organizational and managerial challenges of this unique site, and crucially, why so little has been achieved compared with potential op

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Book SynopsisAlternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the âworkâ of heritage can be reimagined, as a multifarious field of thought and action, to resist the reductive economies of colonial capitalism.In a global context of cultural financialisaton and ecological crisis, where sustainable, anti-colonial and creative approaches are required to solve urgent problems, this volume provides readers with an enriched understanding of heritage as a transforming and multidisciplinary domain, which continues to question what is valued, discarded or shared with future generations. Bringing together researchers from the academy and industry, and from varied international contexts, this volume asks how does âheritageâ â as a complex intersection of contemporary practices with their own diverse histories â recognise and circulate cultural value between generations and communities? This volume brings together critical and creative per

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Book SynopsisThe essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them.Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across early modern worlds as natural things traveled across the Indian Ocean, the Ottoman Empire, Pacific islands, Southeast Asia, the Spanish Empire, and Western Europe. In distant worlds that were constantly changing with expanding networks of trade, colonial aspirations, and the rise of empiricism, natural things obtained new meanings and became alienated from their origins. Tracing the processes of their displacement, each chapter starts with a piece of original artwork that relies on digital collage to pull image sources out of place and to represent meanings that natural things lost and remade. Accessible and elegantTrade Review"Natural Things is a creative, exciting, and genre-defying volume that helps readers to understand natural history more attentively and capaciously. The volume puts nature back into nature, and follows natural things across built environments, ecological niches, and academic fields, embracing the unruliness required if one puts them, rather than people, at the centre."Surekha Davies, Ph.D. Researcher, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands"What better can be said of a book than that it impels the reader to realize things are not as they seem, nor can they be easily categorized, especially not into binary classifications such as natural/unnatural, live/dead, human/nature, indigenous/exotic, west/east, and subject/object. This is a volume full of surprises, changelings, liminalities, and polyvalent meanings. In its capacious and always fascinating roving around the terrains, ecologies, and intersections of material culture, global exchange, environmental history, and the history of knowledge and science/nature studies, Natural Things will unsettle assumptions and introduce instabilities into seemingly fixed points of reference. Read it!"Pamela H. Smith, PhD, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University, New York"This excellent collection of essays brings alive crucial exchanges of ideas and objects that characterize the scientific and cultural history of the early modern world. Combining archival erudition, critical historiography, and imaginative visualization, this book is an inspiring new resource for teaching as well as further research. In evocative essays, we are reminded that ‘seeing’ things that make up various understandings of nature should be understood as an active pursuit, whether for us today or in the way we ascribe it to past peoples whose imaginations we try to bring to life in our work. The book provides one of the most successful cases I know for using images as crucial historical evidence rather than as indexical illustrations."Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University USA"This visually arresting and all-absorbing book takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey across the world from the Pacific Islands to South Asia, from the Atlantic world to Europe and the Americas at a time in which humans profoundly redefined their relationship with the global natural world. By bringing material culture, ecology, technologies, science and economy into conversation, Natural Things defies disciplinary boundaries and redefines our understanding of nature. It does so by considering a number of surprising ‘things’, among which an pink edible animal and a carnivorous plant; an anti-poison stone and one of the most toxic plants; the produce of the intestines of a sperm whale and a delicious beverage to be sipped in company. After reading Natural Things, when you step out of your front door, you’ll never see the world with the same eyes, and you’ll notice ‘things’ that you had not appreciated before!"Giorgio Riello, Professor of Early Modern Global History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy[This book] pushes readers (…) to begin to ask questions about the natural histories of other organisms and to question more closely long-standing narratives about plant discovery and botany. It’s an interesting blend of more traditional history of science with the newer fields of critical plant studies and the plant humanities, which are also at work enriching our views of the floral world.Maura Flannery, Herbarium World (August 2023)“The volume (…) offers a brilliant contribution to the study of non-European knowledge about nature. A rich and pathbreaking volume that, rather than simplifying, sketches a more complex and nuanced picture of the histories of early modern natural things and the humans they met along their ways"Lavinia Gambini, Journal of Early Modern History 27 (2023) 555–568."Like any worthy Wunderkammer, to reap its finer rewards this eclectic collection demands close looking and deep reading, if not several return visits. Smartly designed, edited, and formatted in the manner of a weighty exhibition catalog, Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds falls into that venerable hybrid genre that since the Enlightenment has sought to marry art and nature. At the same time, it mimics a current trend in museography, wherein visual artists are invited to mount critical interventions within the museum’s galleries."Mark Thurner, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Natural Things in Early Modern WorldsMackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano, and Duygu YıldırımOn the DesignZoë Sadokierski and Katie DeanPart I: Manipulated1. Pollen: The Sexual Life of Plants in MesoamericaHelen Burgos-Ellis2. Bezoar: Medicine in the Belly of the BeastMackenzie Cooley 3. Canal: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Control of WaterAlexander Statman4. Ambergris: From Sea to Scent in Renaissance ItalyMackenzie Cooley and Kathryn BiedermannPart II: Felt5. Squid: Natural History as Food History Whitney Barlow Robles 6. Coffee: Of Melancholic Turkish Bodies and Sensory ExperiencesDuygu Yıldırım7. Manchineel: Power, Pain, and Knowledge in the Lesser AntillesThomas C. Anderson8. Pitcher Plant: Drowning in her Sweet NectarElaine AyersPart III: Preserved9. Leaf: The Materiality of Early Modern HerbalsJulia Heideklang10. Armadillo: An Animal in Search of a Place Florencia Pierri 11. Bird: Living Names of Félix de Azara’s Lost CollectionAnna Toledano12. Brain: Objecthood, Subjecthood, and the Genius of GaussNicolaas RupkeEpilogue: Nature’s NarrativesPaula FindlenAfterword: The Disorder of ThingsAlan Mikhail Index

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Book SynopsisReflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves.Considering the interview as a form of cultural production, contributors explore the criteria for determining the artist interview as a distinct field of research in relation to other cultural fields. Structured in four parts, âHistory and Historiographyâ, âSubverting the Biographical Modelâ, âInterviews as Practiceâ and âMateriality and Technologyâ, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of art history, fine art, oral history, curating, media studies and museum conservation. By theorising the artist interview as a form of cultural production and embracing it as a co-constructed critical practice, this volume aims to show and encourage an approach to art history which dismantles old hierarchies in favour of valuing dialogue and collabora

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Book SynopsisMobile Heritage explores how diverse digital technologies (such as apps, GPS, games, social platforms, NFTs, drones, AR, VR, and MR, among others) have allowed for new types of heritage-related mobilities, and thereby established a novel set of practices, interventions, and politics in heritage collections, archives, exhibitions, entertainment, preservation, management, commerce, education, restitution, activism, and regulation.The volume is not a âhow toâ book. Instead, it critically examines this emerging landscape and its unsettling of existing relations between heritage and knowledge, value, identity, power, sense of place, community, nationhood, and ownership â thereby outlining a new set of issues, implications, and consequences. The volume brings together case studies from around the world and each chapter considers mobility matters related to both tangible and intangible cultural heritage (including art, film, music, historical games, manuscripts, Indigenous kn

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range â academics, museum curators, students, and content creators â to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for public scholarship on the history, archaeology, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia.Together, the contributions promote the creation of inclusive methods of knowledge mobilization and communication in public spheres across three main areas: cultural heritage, pedagogy, and public-facing scholarship. These areas have all been directly affected by Eurocentric structures that have claimed ownership of ancient Mediterranean cultural heritage and have dictated how it has been taught in schools and communicated to the broader public. The volume is divided into three sections â Museums, Teaching and Learning, and Global and Local Projects â each addressing pressing challenges faced within these interrelated fields and offering w

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Analyzing media coverage in cases where cultural heritage sites have been destroyed during conflict, occupation and war, this book highlights the important role media play in the preservation of cultural heritage when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations.Author Mischa Geracoulis discusses how the role of journalism and the media during times of conflict is to report information from the front lines and war zones with integrity, and report accurately when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations. The book examines the media coverage, language and discourse surrounding two key situationsâthe destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh and that of Palestinian cultural heritage in Gazaâand explores the ways media coverage has succeeded or failed in accurately illustrating the destruction of cultural heritage as a human rights violation. Geracoulis emphasizes the importance of factual, ethical reporting and sufficient coverage, underlining professional journalistic standards and best practices for the future to ensure similar destruction is not only understood, but responded to, within a human rights framework.The book will be of interest to students and scholars of media, journalism, and cultural studies, as well as media professionals interested in the role and influence of media framing and narratives on war, conflict, human rights, and humanitarian response.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray examines what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a specific material but wanting to participate in critical discussions that extend far beyond clay.Trade Review'This is an essential read for the student of contemporary ceramics, providing a fresh perspective on "post-studio" ceramic practice.' Stephen Dixon, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter OneBecoming Partners?Creative Tension: Defining ceramicsSculpture: A category in danger of collapseThe Art and Craft DivideAn Overview of the BookChapter TwoMonumental MattersMonuments and the Collective MemoryTwo Approaches: The logical and the abstracted monument Ceramics in Civic SpaceWheel of Fortune: Monumentalizing Stoke-on-Trent Making it Big: The monumental styleChapter ThreeThe Numbers Game: Multi-part compositionsDo Numbers Matter?Plane Thinking: Horizonal groupsHigh Rise: Stack, build, repeatThe Expressive Possibility of Repetition Clare Twomey: Master assemblerChapter FourThe Art of Destruction: Ceramics, Sculpture and IconoclasmWhat is Iconoclasm?Iconoclasm and ArtVases and VandalismOut of the Ordinary: Destroying domestic wareClay in CommonPast Imperfect: The art of transformative repairDestruction as Cultural CritiquePlease Do Not Touch: Destruction in the vitrineBiting the hand that feeds? Iconoclasm as institutional critiqueChapter FiveEncounters: Ceramics on ShowThinking About ExhibitionsClay as an Authentic Material for Sculpture: The Raw and the CookedCeramics and Minimalism: The New WhiteCeramics Under Threat: A Secret History of ClayPost-Studio Practice: Possibilities and LossesCeramics for the HomeThe Separation of Art and the HomeHome Coming: Contemporary ceramics in domestic spaceDomesticating the White CubeConclusionRadical PlasticityA Single MaterialWorkmanshipThe VesselThe Current of InfluenceThe Future

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Book SynopsisIn any museum, gallery, or heritage site that wishes to engage with foreign-language visitors, translation is essential. Providing texts in foreign languages whether for international visitors from different language cultures or for heritage speakers of local minority languages is centrally important in enabling these visitors to make sense of what they see displayed. Yet despite this awareness, and a growing body of research in the field, there has hitherto been little available in the way of practical training in this area of translation. This book aims to help fill that need.Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites focuses on the translation of interpretive and information texts, particularly in the museum context. After an initial introduction and an overview of key concepts in both museums and translation, it looks at three broad groupings of texts from the museum text system: fixed labels and wall panels, leaflets and other portable learning resour

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Book SynopsisBjørnar Julius Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.Stein Farstadvoll is Associate Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.Geneviève Godin is an independent scholar and former Doctoral Research Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research into trauma and trauma recovery, it challenges existing modes of cultural heritage reconstruction and envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to use heritage for healing. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing the politics of display. It demonstrates how questions of Irishness intersected with broader ideas of citizenship, race and ethnic construction in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis collection considers how Canadian art educatorsare engaging with a new range of approaches tomuseum education, and why educators are responding to 21st century challenges in ways thatare unique to Canada. Organized into threesections, this collection reconceptualizesmuseums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and how practices createimpactful change. With the overarching concept ofrelationality between art museums andinterdisciplinary perspectives, authors considermethodological, philosophical, experiential andaesthetic forms of inquiry in regional museumcontexts from coast-to-coast-to-coast that bring forward innovative theoretical standpoints withpractice-based projects in museums, articulatinghow museums are shifting, and why museums areevolving as sites that mediate different andmultiple knowledges for the future. Informed bysocial justice perspectives, and as catalysts forpublic scholarship, each chapter is passionate in addressing the mobilization

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