Extreme Collecting: Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782385142 ISBN 13: 9781782385141

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting 'difficult' objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical approach to the rigidity of museums in maintaining essentially nineteenth-century ideas of collecting; and to move towards identifying priorities for collection policies in museums, which are inclusive of acquiring 'difficult' objects. Much of the book engages with the question of the limits to the practice of collecting as a means to think through the implementation of new strategies.

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Graeme Were is Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bristol. His current research focuses on material culture and ethnographic museums; digital heritage and source community engagement; and, ethnomathematics in the Pacific. His recent publications include Lines that Connect: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010), and Pacific Pattern, with S. Küchler (Thames & Hudson, 2005). He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and an editor of the Journal of Material Culture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1782385142
• ISBN 13: 9781782385141
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250
• Herausgeber: Were Graeme, King J. C. H.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland