04232nam 22007573u 450 991095881190332120250529212859.09781782386612178238661010.1515/9781782386612(CKB)2550000001314313(EBL)1707792(OCoLC)881366670(SSID)ssj0001355617(PQKBManifestationID)11746397(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001355617(PQKBWorkID)11347303(PQKB)11360356(MiAaPQ)EBC1707792(DE-B1597)636271(DE-B1597)9781782386612(Perlego)541188(EXLCZ)99255000000131431320141006d2001|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrAcademic Anthropology and the Museum Back to the FutureNew York, NY Berghahn Books20011 online resource (254 p.)New Directions in Anthropology ;v.13Description based upon print version of record.9781571813213 1571813217 9781306862097 1306862094 Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Anthropological encounters with the post-colonial museum; Chapter 2: The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Muesum, Tervuren and the U'' mista Centre, Alert Bay; Chapter 3: Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire; Chapter 4: On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer''s collection of Tiwi artefacts; Part II: Ethnographic museums and ethnographic museology ''at home''Chapter 5: Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musee National des Arts et Traditions Popularies in ParisChapter 6: ''Does anthropology need museums?'' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal thirty years later; Part III: Science museums as an ethnographic challenge; Chapter 7: Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us; Chapter 8: Behind the scenes at the Science Museum: knowing, making and using; Part IV: Anthropologists as cultural producers; Chapter 9: Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discoursesChapter 10: Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academyChapter 11: The art of exhibition-making as a problem of translation; Part V: Looking ahead; Chapter 12: Why post-millenial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas; Bibliography; IndexThe museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the ""social"" and the ""material"" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefittedNew Directions in AnthropologyAnthropological museums and collections -- HistoryAnthropology -- PhilosophyMuseum exhibits -- HistoryMuseum techniques -- HistoryAnthropologyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCAnthropology - GeneralHILCCAnthropological museums and collections -- History.Anthropology -- Philosophy.Museum exhibits -- History.Museum techniques -- History.AnthropologySocial SciencesAnthropology - General069.5Bouquet Mary1955-1200872AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910958811903321Academic Anthropology and the Museum4383134UNINA