Title & Author:

Interpreting objects and collections / edited by Susan M. Pearce.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

xii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Leicester readers in museum studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index.
Museum objects / Susan M. Pearce -- The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings / Ian Hodder -- Things ain't what they used to be / Daniel Miller -- Objects as meaning; or narrating the past / Susan M. Pearce -- Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / J. Deetz and E.S. Dethlefsen -- Behavioural interaction with objects / Susan M. Pearce -- A view of functionalism / Edmund Leach -- Culture as a system with subsystems / David Clarke -- Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view / Ian Hodder -- A view from the bridge / Edmund Leach -- Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology / Robert McGhee -- Interpreting material culture / Christopher Tilley -- Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- Why fakes? / Mark Jones.
Cannibal tours, glass boxes and the politics of interpretation / Michael Ames -- Craft / M. Shanks -- Towards a material history methodology / R. Elliot et al. -- Thinking about things / Susan M. Pearce -- Mind in matter; an introduction to material culture theory and method / Jules Prown -- Not looking at kettles / Ray Batchelor -- Home interview questionnaire, with coding categories and definitions / M. Csikszentmihalyi and E. Halton -- The urge to collect / Susan M. Pearce -- The collection: between the visible and the invisible / Krzysztof Pomian -- Notes on the history of collecting and of museums / Eva Schulz -- Another past, another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad / B.N. Goswamy -- Collecting reconsidered / Susan M. Pearce -- Psychological aspects of art collecting / Frederick Baekeland.

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ISBN:

0415112885 (hbk.)
9780415112888 (hbk.)
0415112893 (pbk.)
9780415112895 (pbk.)

Subject:

Collectors and collecting.
Collectors and collecting Europe History.
Museums Social aspects.
Collections.
Musées Aspect social.
Interpretation
Museumsbestand
Aufsatzsammlung
Materiële cultuur.
Verzamelingen.
Kunstbeschouwing.
Colecao museologica/museografica.
Objet (esthétique)
Archéologie Musées.
Art Musées.
Ethnologie Musées.
Collections ethnologiques.
Muséologie.
Europe
Museums Collections

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Pearce, Susan M., editor.
Leicester readers in museum studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110992
Call No.: ID AM231.I58; ID:96-B1842
Status: Available