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Cannibal Tours And Glass Boxes
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Author : Michael M. Ames
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2007-10-01
Cannibal Tours And Glass Boxes written by Michael M. Ames and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Art categories.
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world. In it, Michael Ames, an internationally renowned museum director, challenges popular concepts and criticisms of museums and presents an alternate perspective which reflects his experiences from many years of museum work. Based on the author's previous book, Museums, the Public and Anthropology, the new edition includes seven new essays which argue, as in the previous volume, that museums and anthropologists must contextualize and critique themselves -- they must analyse and critique the social, political and economic systems within which they work. In the new essays, Ames looks at the role of consumerism and the market economy in the production of such phenomena as worlds' fairs and McDonald's hamburger chains, referring to them as "museums of everyday life" and indicating the way in which they, like museums, transform ideology into commonsense, thus reinforcing and perpetuating hegemonic control over how people think about and represent themselves. He also discusses the moral/political ramifications of conflicting attitudes towards Aboriginal art (is it art or artifact?); censorship (is it liberating or repressive?); and museum exhibits (are they informative or disinformative?). The earlier essays outline the development of museums in the Western world, the problems faced by anthropologists in attempting to deal with the often conflicting demands of professional as opposed to public interests, the tendency to both fabricate and stereotype, and the need to establish a reciprocal rather than exploitative relationship between museums/anthropologists and Aboriginal people. Written during the course of the last decade, these essays offer an accessible, often anecdotal, journey through one professional anthropologist's concerns about, and hopes for, his discipline and its future.
Cannibal Tours And Glass Boxes
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Author : Michael M. Ames
language : en
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Cannibal Tours And Glass Boxes written by Michael M. Ames and has been published by University of British Columbia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probingquestions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropologyin the contemporary world. In it, Michael Ames, an internationallyrenowned museum director, challenges popular concepts and criticisms ofmuseums and presents an alternate perspective which reflects hisexperiences from many years of museum work. Based on the author's previous book, Museums, the Public andAnthropology, the new edition includes seven new essays which argue, asin the previous volume, that museums and anthropologists mustcontextualize and critique themselves -- they must analyse and critiquethe social, political and economic systems within which they work. Inthe new essays, Ames looks at the role of consumerism and the marketeconomy in the production of such phenomena as worlds' fairs andMcDonald's hamburger chains, referring to them as "museums ofeveryday life" and indicating the way in which they, like museums,transform ideology into commonsense, thus reinforcing and perpetuatinghegemonic control over how people think about and represent themselves.He also discusses the moral/political ramifications of conflictingattitudes towards Aboriginal art (is it art or artifact?); censorship(is it liberating or repressive?); and museum exhibits (are theyinformative or disinformative?). The earlier essays outline the development of museums in the Westernworld, the problems faced by anthropologists in attempting to deal withthe often conflicting demands of professional as opposed to publicinterests, the tendency to both fabricate and stereotype, and the needto establish a reciprocal rather than exploitative relationship betweenmuseums/anthropologists and Aboriginal people. Written during the course of the last decade, these essays offer anaccessible, often anecdotal, journey through one professionalanthropologist's concerns about, and hopes for, his discipline andits future.
Cannibal Tours And Glass Boxes The Anthropology Of Museums
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Cannibal Tours And Glass Boxes The Anthropology Of Museums written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world. In it, Michael Ames, an internationally renowned museum director, challenges popular concepts and criticisms of museums and presents an alternate perspective which reflects his experiences from many years of museum work. Based on the author's previous book, Museums, the Public and Anthropology, the new edition includes seven new essays which argue, as in the previous volume, that museums and anthropologists must contextualize and critique themselves -- they must analyse and critique the social, political and economic systems within which they work. In the new essays, Ames looks at the role of consumerism and the market economy in the production of such phenomena as worlds' fairs and McDonald's hamburger chains, referring to them as "museums of everyday life" and indicating the way in which they, like museums, transform ideology into commonsense, thus reinforcing and perpetuating hegemonic control over how people think about and represent themselves. He also discusses the moral/political ramifications of conflicting attitudes towards Aboriginal art (is it art or artifact?); censorship (is it liberating or repressive?); and museum exhibits (are they informative or disinformative?). The earlier essays outline the development of museums in the Western world, the problems faced by anthropologists in attempting to deal with the often conflicting demands of professional as opposed to public interests, the tendency to both fabricate and stereotype, and the need to establish a reciprocal rather than exploitative relationship between museums/anthropologists and Aboriginal people. Written during the course of the last decade, these essays offer an accessible, often anecdotal, journey through one professional anthropologist's concerns about, and hopes for, his discipline and its future.
Looking Reality In The Eye
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Author : Museums Association of Saskatchewan
language : en
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Release Date : 2005
Looking Reality In The Eye written by Museums Association of Saskatchewan and has been published by University of Calgary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Museums are often stereotyped as dusty storage facilities for ancient artefacts considered important by only a handful of scholars. Recently there has been effort on the part of some museumologists to reconsider the role and responsibilities of museums, art galleries and science centres as integral social institutions in their communities. The book attempts to point the way towards a sustainable future for museums by examining institutions that have found creative ways to attain a socially responsive model for cultural resource management. Accessible and engaging, the articles presented here are an excellent starting point for any discussion on what museums have been and what they should strive to be.
Museums The Public And Anthropology
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Author : Michael M. Ames
language : en
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Release Date : 1986
Museums The Public And Anthropology written by Michael M. Ames and has been published by Concept Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Anthropological museums and collections categories.
Interpreting Objects And Collections
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Author : Susan M. Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1994
Interpreting Objects And Collections written by Susan M. Pearce and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
Interpreting Objects And Collections
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Author : Susan Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Interpreting Objects And Collections written by Susan Pearce and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Business & Economics categories.
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, on the interpretation of collections, looks at the study of collections in their historical and conceptual context. Many topics are covered such as the study of collecting to structure individual identity, its affect on time and space and the construction of gender. There are also papers discussing collection and ideology, collection and social action and the methodology of collection study. This unique anthology of articles and extracts will be of inestimable value to all students and professionals involved in the interpretation of objects and collections.
Museum Pieces
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Author : Ruth Bliss Phillips
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2011
Museum Pieces written by Ruth Bliss Phillips and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both difference and inclusivity. Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.
Pragmatic Imagination And The New Museum Anthropology
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Author : Christina J. Hodge
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Pragmatic Imagination And The New Museum Anthropology written by Christina J. Hodge and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Social Science categories.
Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropology’s relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum anthropologies. The book features international case studies that operate at the interfaces of critical museology, anthropology, material culture studies, art practice, and more. The theory of pragmatics proposes that meaning-making is collaborative and best evaluated through its impact in the world. Collectively the chapters in this volume evidence a ‘pragmatic imagination’ at work as museum anthropology practitioners ingeniously combine inventiveness (the possible) and practicality (the actual) in ways that drive the field forward. Defining museum anthropology as a pragmatic practice explicitly theorizes this work in order to mark its significance; demystify its processes of knowledge production; connect it more readily to debates within and beyond anthropology; and facilitate critique.
The Routledge Companion To Museum Ethics
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Author : Janet Marstine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-23
The Routledge Companion To Museum Ethics written by Janet Marstine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-23 with Social Science categories.
Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of compliance. The volume represents diverse strands in museum activity from exhibitions to marketing, as ethics is embedded in all areas of the museum sector. What the contributions share is an understanding of the contingent nature of museum ethics in the twenty-first century—its relations with complex economic, social, political and technological forces and its fluid ever-shifting sensibility. The volume examines contemporary museum ethics through the prism of those disciplines and methods that have shaped it most. It argues for a museum ethics discourse defined by social responsibility, radical transparency and shared guardianship of heritage. And it demonstrates the moral agency of museums: the concept that museum ethics is more than the personal and professional ethics of individuals and concerns the capacity of institutions to generate self-reflective and activist practice.