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

Pearce, Susan M. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0415112885 (hbk)
  • ISBN: 9780415112888 (hbk)
  • ISBN: 0415112893 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 9780415112895 (pbk)
  • Physical Description: xii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  • Publisher: London ; Routledge, 1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-337) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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
Subject:
Collectors and collecting.
Collectors and collecting > Europe > History.
Museums > Social aspects.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library AM 231 ,I58 1994 283540 Stacks Reshelving -

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