{"product_id":"academic-anthropology-and-the-museum-back-to-the-future-9781571818256","title":"Academic Anthropology and the Museum: Back to the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThe museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the \"social\" and the \"material\" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted from working on these material representations of culture. Moreover it was forgotten that museums do not only present the \"pastness\" of things. A great deal of what goes on in contemporary museums is literally about planning the shape of the future: making culture materialize involves mixing things from the past, taking into account current visions, and knowing that the scenes constructed will shape the perspectives of future generations. However, the (re-)invention of museum anthropology presents a series of challenges for academic teaching and research, as well as for the work of cultural production in contemporary museums - issues that are explored in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"The book's central argument is well made.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Museum National\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"...focuses on anthropologists, but the consideration given to the relations between academic and museum worlds will be useful to any scholar with current affiliations or aspirations to engage with museum culture. In terms of the volume's original intent, as a work responding to the needs of those teaching and studying anthro-museology, it is an impressive accomplishment.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e   · Anthropologica\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Future\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMary Bouquet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POST-COLONIAL MUSEUM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e The photological apparatus and the desiring machine: Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umista Centre, Alert Bay\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBarbara Saunders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNuno Porto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artifacts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEric Venbrux\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUMS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEOLOGY 'AT HOME'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMartine Segalen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years Later\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNélia Dias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: SCIENCE MUSEUMS AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eRoberto J. Gonzalez\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLaura Nader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eC. Jay Ou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London: Knowing, making and using\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSharon Macdonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AS CULTURAL PRODUCERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourse\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnthony Shelton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJeanne Cannizzo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMary Bouquet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART V: LOOKING AHEAD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael M. Ames\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041431421271,"sku":"9781571818256","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571818256.jpg?v=1750950253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/academic-anthropology-and-the-museum-back-to-the-future-9781571818256","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}