Museum studies in material culture / edited by Susan M. Pearce.

Title & Author:

Museum studies in material culture / edited by Susan M. Pearce.

Publication:

London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1989.

Description:

vi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the University of Leicester, Dept. of Museum Studies.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Geoffrey Lewis -- Museum studies in material culture : 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.

ISBN:

071851288X
9780718512880
0718513916 (pbk.)
9780718513917 (pbk.)
1560981245 (U.S.)
9781560981244 (U.S.)

Subject:

Material culture Congresses.
Anthropological museums and collections Congresses.
Culture matérielle Congrès.
Anthropologie Musées et collections Congrès.
Anthropological museums and collections
Material culture
Museum
Museumskunde
Sachkultur
Kongress
Materiële cultuur.
Museumkunde.
11030 museology
Museum techniques

Form/genre:

Kongress Leicester 1987.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Pearce, Susan M.
University of Leicester. Department of Museum Studies.

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Location: Library main 50520
Call No.: ID:89-B9434
Status: Available

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