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Museums : a visual anthropology / Mary Bouquet.
Penn Museum Library GN35 .B68 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bouquet, Mary, 1955-
- Series:
- Key texts in the anthropology of visual and material culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropological museums and collections.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Museums.
- Museums--Philosophy.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Berg, 2012.
- Summary:
- " ... 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." -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Museums in the twenty-first century
- Stretching the National Museum
- A history of ethnographic museums
- The ethnography of museums
- Practices of object display
- Object and image repatriation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780857852113
- 0857852116
- 9780857852120
- 0857852124
- 9781845208110
- 1845208110
- 9781845208127
- 1845208129
- OCLC:
- 794176314
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