Academic Anthropology and the Museum : : Back to the Future /

Academic Anthropology and the Museum : : Back to the Future / / ed. by Mary Bouquet.

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The 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...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ames, Michael M.,
Bouquet, Mary,
Cannizzo, Jeanne,
Dias, Nélia,
González, Roberto J.,
Macdonald, Sharon,
Nader, Laura,
Ou, C. Jay,
Porto, Nuno,
Saunders, Barbara,
Segalen, Martine,
Shelton, Anthony,
Venbrux, Eric,
HerausgeberIn:
Bouquet, Mary,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Anthropology ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Future
  • Part I. Anthropological encounters with the post-colonial museum
  • 2. The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umistà Centre, Alert Bay
  • 3. Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire
  • 4. On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer’s collection of Tiwi artefacts
  • Part II. Ethnographic museums and ethnographic museology ‘at home’
  • 5. Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris
  • 6. ‘Does anthropology need museums?’ Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years Later
  • Part III. Science museums as an ethnographic challenge
  • 7. Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us
  • 8. Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London. Knowing, making and using
  • Part IV. Anthropologists as cultural producers
  • 9. Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourse
  • 10. Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academy
  • 11. The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation
  • Part V. Looking ahead
  • 12. Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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