Title:
Academic anthropology and the museum : back to the future / edited by Mary Bouquet.
New directions in anthropology ;
Author:
Bouquet, Mary, 1955-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-230) and index.
Introduction : Academic anthropology and the museum. Back to the future / Mary Bouquet -- The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umistلa Centre, Alert Bay / Barbara Saunders -- Picturing the museum : photography and the work of mediation in the third Portuguese empire / Nuno Porto -- On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artefacts / Eric Venbrux -- Anthropology at home and in the museum : the case of the Musâee National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris / Martine Segalen -- 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, thirty years later / Nelia Dias -- Towards an ethnography of museums : science, technology and us / Roberto J. Gonzâalez, Laura Nader and C. Jay Ou -- Behind the scenes at the Science Museum, London. Knowing, making and using / Sharon Macdonald -- Unsettling the meaning : critical museology, art and anthropological discourse / Anthony Shelton -- Inside out : cultural production in the museum and the academy / Jeanne Cannizzo -- The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation / Mary Bouquet -- Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas / Michael M. Ames.
Publisher:
Berghahn Books,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
1571818251
9781571818256
1571813217 (pbk.)
9781571813213 (pbk.)
Subject:
Anthropological museums and collections -- History.
Museum exhibits -- History.
Museum techniques -- History.
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
Anthropologie -- Musâees et collections -- Histoire.
Objets exposâes -- Histoire.
Musâeologie -- Histoire.
Anthropologie -- Philosophie.
Anthropologie -- âEtude et enseignement (2e et 3e cycles)
Culturele antropologie.
Etnografie.
Musea.
Series:
New directions in anthropology ; v. 13
Contents:
Introduction : Academic anthropology and the museum. Back to the future / Mary Bouquet -- The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umistلa Centre, Alert Bay / Barbara Saunders -- Picturing the museum : photography and the work of mediation in the third Portuguese empire / Nuno Porto -- On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artefacts / Eric Venbrux -- Anthropology at home and in the museum : the case of the Musâee National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris / Martine Segalen -- 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, thirty years later / Nelia Dias -- Towards an ethnography of museums : science, technology and us / Roberto J. Gonzâalez, Laura Nader and C. Jay Ou -- Behind the scenes at the Science Museum, London. Knowing, making and using / Sharon Macdonald -- Unsettling the meaning : critical museology, art and anthropological discourse / Anthony Shelton -- Inside out : cultural production in the museum and the academy / Jeanne Cannizzo -- The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation / Mary Bouquet -- Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas / Michael M. Ames.
Physical Description:
xiv, 240 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
c2001, 2006 printing.