Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Museum studies in material culture
Primary Maker
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
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
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Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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