Museums in the material world / edited by Simon J. Knell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knell, Simon J.

Series:

Leicester readers in museum studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum techniques.

Museums--Collection management.

Museums.

Material culture--Conservation and restoration.

Material culture.

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property.

Museums--Study and teaching (Higher).

Museums--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xvii, 374 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

1 Museums, reality and the material world / Simon J. Knell 1

Part 1 The Objective World 29

2 The value of natural history collections in Latin America conservation / Paisley S. Cato 34

3 Characterization of voucher specimens / Welton L. Lee, Bruce M. Bell, John F. Sutton 46

4 Home thoughts from abroad: an evaluation of the SAMDOK Homes Pool / Elizabet Stavenow-Hidemark 51

5 Ceramics as testaments of the past: field research and making objects speak / Barbara E. Frank 60

6 In praise of connoisseurship / David Carrier 65

7 Material culture / Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley 79

Part 2 The Subjective World 95

8 On a new foundation: the American art museum reconceived / Stephen E. Weil 100

9 The art of art history / Donald Preziosi 110

10 Our (museum) world turned upside down: re-presenting Native American arts / Janet Catherine Berlo, Ruth B. Phillips 118

11 History as deconstruction / Alun Munslow 127

12 Processual, postprocessual and interpretive archaeologies / Michael Shanks, Ian Hodder 144

13 Artefacts and the meaning of things / Daniel Miller 166

Part 3 The Consumed World 187

14 The aristocracy of culture / Pierre Bourdieu 191

15 Stakeholder relationships in the market for contemporary art / Derrick Chong 201

16 Organising art: constructing aesthetic value / Jonathan Vickery 214

17 How Hello Kitty commodifies the cute, cool and camp / Brian J. McVeigh 230

18 The sociology of consumption / Colin Campbell 246

19 Inalienable wealth / Annette B. Weiner 253

20 Consuming fossils and museums in early nineteenth-century England / Simon J. Knell 261

21 Dustup in the bone pile: academics v. collectors / Virginia Morell 274

Part 4 The Transient World 279

22 Bones of contention: the repatriation of Native American human remains / Andrew Gulliford 284

23 Contesting the West / Alan Trachtenberg 292

24 Abraham Lincoln as authentic reproduction: a critique of postmodernism / Edward M. Bruner 301

25 After authenticity at an American heritage site / Eric Gable, Richard Handler 320

26 Diversity, identity and modernity in exile: 'traditional' Karenni clothing / Sandra Dudley 335

27 Tangible reminders of Sept. 11th / Glenn Collins 346

28 On the rocks / Philip S. Doughty 350

29 Endangered species and the law / Valerius Geist 357

30 Museums, collections and biodiversity inventories / Pere Alberch 364.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415416986

0415416981

9780415416993

041541699X

9780203946855

0203946855

OCLC:

137324893