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Interpreting objects and collections / edited by Susan M. Pearce.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Leicester readers in museum studies.
- Leicester readers in museum studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collectors and collecting.
- Collectors and collecting--Europe--History.
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Museums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which discuss objects variously as historical documents, functioning material, and as semiotic texts, as well as those which examine the politics of objects and the methodology of object study.The second section,
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-337) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-70917-1
- 1-282-77843-9
- 1-134-83038-6
- 9786612778438
- 0-203-42827-7
- 9780203428276
- OCLC:
- 191031504
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