General Note:
Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Leicester, Dept. of Museum Studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface / Geoffrey Lewis -- Museum studies in material culture: an introduction / Susan M. Pearce -- Material culture research and North American social history / Thomas J. Schlereth -- The applied arts in the museum context / Ian Wolfenden -- Archaeology, material culture and museums / David Crowther -- Objects in structures / Susan M. Pearce -- The museum in the disciplinary society / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- The fetishism of artefacts / Peter Gathercole -- Museums of the world: stages for the study of ethnohistory / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Material culture research and the curation process / Hans Jörg Fürst -- Museums of anthropology as centres of information / Barrie Reynolds -- The collection of material objects and their interpretation / J. Geraint Jenkins -- Objects as evidence, or not? / Gaynor Kavanagh -- Material culture, people's history, and populism: where do we go from here? / Peter Jenkinson -- The social basis of museum and heritage visiting / Nick Merriman.
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