Museums. A visual anthropology./ Mary Bouquet.

By:

Bouque, Mary

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Key texts in the anthropology of visual and material culturePublication details: Oxford : Berg Publishers 2012.Description: 192 pagesISBN:

9781845208110
1845208110

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DDC classification:

708 BOU

Summary: This title provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this constantly evolving time machine, "Museums" will be essential reading for students of anthropology and museum studies.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this constantly evolving time machine, Museums will be essential reading for students of anthropology and museum studies.

This title provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this constantly evolving time machine, "Museums" will be essential reading for students of anthropology and museum studies.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations (p. viii)
Acknowledgements (p. x)
Introduction (p. 1)
1 Museums in the Twenty-first Century (p. 11)
Introduction (p. 12)
Sites and Websites: Teylers Museum (p. 13)
www.teylersmuseum.nl (p. 14)
From Private Collection to Public Museum (p. 19)
Evergetic and Donor Museums (p. 22)
TeylerÆs Portrait (p. 25)
Visiting TeylerÆs Foundation House (p. 28)
Conclusion (p. 30)
Key Concepts (p. 31)
Exercises (p. 32)
Further Reading (p. 32)
2 Stretching the National Museum (p. 33)
Introduction (p. 34)
Collections: The Visible and the Invisible (p. 37)
The Exhibitionary Complex (p. 44)
Internationalization (p. 50)
Conclusion (p. 60)
Key Concepts (p. 60)
Exercises (p. 61)
Further Reading (p. 61)
3 A History of Ethnographic Museums (p. 63)
Introduction (p. 63)
The First Public Ethnographic Museum in Copenhagen (p. 67)
Ethnographica and the Nineteenth-century Exhibitionary Complex (p. 72)
Classification: Geographical, Material, Functional and Typological Ways of Ordering Ethnographic Collections (p. 77)
Aesthetic and Experiential Considerations Involved in Exhibiting Ethnographica (p. 81)
Conclusion (p. 89)
Key Concepts (p. 91)
Exercises (p. 91)
Further Reading (p. 92)
4 The Ethnography of Museums (p. 93)
Introduction (p. 93)
Ethnographic Fieldwork (p. 94)
Ethnographic Museums and the Ethnography of Museums (p. 96)
The Ethnography of Museums: Points of Departure (p. 98)
Paradise: An Ethnography of Collection-making (p. 100)
'Food for Thought': An Ethnography of Exhibition-making at the Science Museum, London (p. 104)
'Making the Walls Speak': An Ethnography of Guided-tour Encounters in Two Israeli Settlement Museums (p. 110)
Conclusion (p. 114)
Key Concepts (p. 116)
Exercises (p. 117)
Further Reading (p. 117)
5 Practices of Object Display (p. 119)
Introduction (p. 120)
Objectification: Typologies (p. 123)
Life Groups (p. 126)
The Inhabited Room (p. 128)
Modernism (p. 131)
Ethnography and Modernisms (p. 136)
Renovation (p. 140)
Conclusion (p. 148)
Key Concepts (p. 149)
Exercises (p. 149)
Further Reading (p. 150)
6 Object and Image Repatriation (p. 151)
Introduction (p. 151)
Repatriation of Human Remains (p. 153)
Repatriation of Objects (p. 161)
Visual Repatriation (p. 171)
Conclusion (p. 177)
Key Concepts (p. 178)
Exercises (p. 178)
Further Reading (p. 179)
Afterword: Teylers Revisited (p. 181)
Notes (p. 189)
Bibliography (p. 209)
Index (p. 223)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mary Bouquet is Fellow at University College Utrecht.