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Museum studies in material culture

documentary heritage

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Museum studies in material culture
  • Primary Maker

    Susan Pearce (Editor)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Leicester University Press ; Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press
  • Place
  • Date
    1989
  • Physical Description

    xiii, 174 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    071851288X
    0718513916
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    2 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Preface / Geoffrey Lewis -- Museum studies in material culture : introduction / Susan M. Pearce -- Material culture research and North American social history / Thomas J. Schlereth -- The applied arts in the museum context / Ian Wolfenden -- Archaeology, material culture and museums / David Crowther -- Objects in structures / Susan M. Pearce -- The museum in the disciplinary society / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- The fetishism of artefacts / Peter Gathercole -- Museums of the world : stages for the study of ethnohistory / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Material culture research and the curation process / Hans Jörg Fürst -- Museums of anthropology as centres of information / Barrie Reynolds -- The collection of material objects and their interpretation / J. Geraint Jenkins. -- Objects as evidence, or not? / Gaynor Kavanagh -- Material culture, people's history, and populism : where do we go from here? / Peter Jenkinson -- The social basis of museum and heritage visiting / Nick Merriman.
  • Public Access Text

    Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Leicester, Department of Museum Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

  • Collection Type
    General Collection
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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