Academic Anthropology and the Museum : Back to the Future /: Back to the Future. (©2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mary Bouquet.
• Other Names: Bouquet, Mary
• Contents: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations Introduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Future; Mary Bouquet PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POST-COLONIAL MUSEUM Chapter 1. The photological apparatus and the desiring machine: Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umista Centre, Alert Bay; Barbara Saunders Chapter 2. Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire; Nuno Porto Chapter 3. On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artifacts; Eric Venbrux PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUMS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEOLOGY 'AT HOME' Chapter 4. Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris; Martine Segalen Chapter 5. 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years Later; Nélia Dias PART III: SCIENCE MUSEUMS AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE Chapter 6. Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us; Roberto J. Gonzalez, Laura Nader and C. Jay Ou Chapter 7. Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London: Knowing, making and using; Sharon Macdonald PART IV: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AS CULTURAL PRODUCERS Chapter 8. Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourse; Anthony Shelton Chapter 9. Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academy; Jeanne Cannizzo Chapter 10. The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation; Mary Bouquet PART V: LOOKING AHEAD Chapter 11. Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas; Michael M. Ames Notes on contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Copyright Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 069.5; Anthropological museums and collections -- History; Museum exhibits -- History; Museum techniques -- History; Anthropology -- Philosophy; Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Graduate); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology; REFERENCE -- General; TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Anthropological museums and collections; Anthropology -- Philosophy; Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Graduate); Museum exhibits; Museum techniques; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782386612; 1782386610; 1306862094; 9781306862097
• Related ISBNs: 9781571818256
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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