Academic Anthropology and the Museum : Back to the Future

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouquet, Mary, 1955-

Series:

New Directions in Anthropology

New Directions in Anthropology ; v.13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological museums and collections--History.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Museum exhibits--History.

Museum techniques--History.

Local Subjects:

Anthropological museums and collections--History.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Museum exhibits--History.

Museum techniques--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the ""social"" and the ""material"" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Anthropological encounters with the post-colonial museum; Chapter 2: The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Muesum, Tervuren and the U'' mista Centre, Alert Bay; Chapter 3: Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire; Chapter 4: On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer''s collection of Tiwi artefacts; Part II: Ethnographic museums and ethnographic museology ''at home''

Chapter 5: Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musee National des Arts et Traditions Popularies in ParisChapter 6: ''Does anthropology need museums?'' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal thirty years later; Part III: Science museums as an ethnographic challenge; Chapter 7: Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us; Chapter 8: Behind the scenes at the Science Museum: knowing, making and using; Part IV: Anthropologists as cultural producers; Chapter 9: Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourses

Chapter 10: Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academyChapter 11: The art of exhibition-making as a problem of translation; Part V: Looking ahead; Chapter 12: Why post-millenial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781782386612

1782386610

OCLC:

881366670