Museums, objects, and collections : a cultural study / Susan M. Pearce.

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Pearce, Susan M.

Title & Author:

Museums, objects, and collections : a cultural study / Susan M. Pearce.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Originally published: Leicester : Leicester University Press, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-287) and index.
1. Museums, Objects and Collections -- 2. Objects Inside and Outside Museums -- 3. Collecting: Body and Soul -- 4. Collecting: Shaping the World -- 5. Museums: the Intellectual Rationale -- 6. Making Museum Meanings -- 7. Meaning as Function -- 8. Meaning as Structure -- 9. Meaning in History -- 10. Objects in Action -- 11. Problems of Power -- 12. Projects and Prospects -- Appendix: Models for object study.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1560983302
9781560983309

Subject:

Collectors and collecting.
Museums Social aspects.
Museum techniques.
Collections.
Musées Aspect social.
Muséologie.
museology.
Museumskunde
Sammeln
Kultur
Musea.
Voorwerpen.
Collectievorming.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120978
Call No.: ID AM231.P4; ID:95-B2189
Status: Available

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