Susan Pearce (ed.)

Interpreting Objects and Collections

Herausgeber: Pearce, Susan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 1992. Corr. 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780415112895
• ISBN-10: 0415112893
• Artikelnr.: 22140061

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Pearce

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Interpreting objects; Chapter 1 Museum objects
Susan M. Pearce; Chapter 2 The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings
IanHodder; Chapter 3 Things ain't what they used to be
DanielMiller; Chapter 4 Objects as meaning; or narrating the past
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 5 Death's head
cherub
urn and willow
J.Deetz
E.S.Dethlefsen; Chapter 6 Behavioural interaction with objects
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 7 A view of functionalism
EdmundLeach; Chapter 8 Culture as a system with subsystems
DavidClarke; Chapter 9 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view
IanHodder; Chapter 10 A view from the bridge
EdmundLeach; Chapter 11 Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology
RobertMcGhee; Chapter 12 Interpreting material culture
ChristopherTilley; Chapter 13 Commodities and the politics of value
ArjunAppadurai; Chapter 14 Why fakes?
MarkJones; Chapter 15 Cannibal tours
glass boxes and the politics of interpretation
MichaelAmes; Chapter 16 Craft
M.Shanks; Chapter 17 Towards a material history methodology
R.Elliot; Chapter 18 Thinking about things
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 19 Mind in matter: an introduction to material culture theory and method
JulesPrown; Chapter 20 Not looking at kettles
RayBatchelor; Chapter 21 Home interview questionnaire
with coding categories and definitions
M.Csikszentmihalyi
E.Halton; Part 2 Interpreting collections; Chapter 22 The urge to collect
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 23 The collection: between the visible and the invisible
KrzysztofPomian; Chapter 24 Notes on the history of collecting and of museums
EvaSchulz; Chapter 25 Another past
another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad
B.N.Goswamy; Chapter 26 Collecting reconsidered
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 27 Psychological aspects of art collecting
FrederickBaekeland; Chapter 28 No two alike: play and aesthetics in collecting
BrendaDanet
TamarKatriel; Chapter 29 Of mice and men: gender identity in collecting
RussellW.Belk
MelanieWallendorf; Chapter 30 Objects of desire
SusanStewart; Chapter 31 Collecting ourselves
J.Clifford; Chapter 32 The filth in the way
M.Thompson; Chapter 33 Art museums and the ritual of citizenship
CarolDuncan; Chapter 34 'The People's Show'
CathyMullen; Chapter 35 Leicester Contemporary Collecting Project's questionnaire
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 36 Beyond the Odyssey: interpretations of ethnographic writing in consumer behaviour
AnnammaJoy; Chapter 37 Collectors and collecting
Russell W.Belk; Chapter 38 Why they collect: collectors reveal their motivations
RuthFormanek;