Title & Author:

Interpreting objects and collections / edited by Susan M. Pearce.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

xii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Leicester readers in museum studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index.
Museum objects / Susan M. Pearce -- The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings / Ian Hodder -- Things ain't what they used to be / Daniel Miller -- Objects as meaning; or narrating the past / Susan M. Pearce -- Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / J. Deetz and E.S. Dethlefsen -- Behavioural interaction with objects / Susan M. Pearce -- A view of functionalism / Edmund Leach -- Culture as a system with subsystems / David Clarke -- Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view / Ian Hodder -- A view from the bridge / Edmund Leach -- Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology / Robert McGhee -- Interpreting material culture / Christopher Tilley -- Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- Why fakes? / Mark Jones.
Cannibal tours, glass boxes and the politics of interpretation / Michael Ames -- Craft / M. Shanks -- Towards a material history methodology / R. Elliot et al. -- Thinking about things / Susan M. Pearce -- Mind in matter; an introduction to material culture theory and method / Jules Prown -- Not looking at kettles / Ray Batchelor -- Home interview questionnaire, with coding categories and definitions / M. Csikszentmihalyi and E. Halton -- The urge to collect / Susan M. Pearce -- The collection: between the visible and the invisible / Krzysztof Pomian -- Notes on the history of collecting and of museums / Eva Schulz -- Another past, another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad / B.N. Goswamy -- Collecting reconsidered / Susan M. Pearce -- Psychological aspects of art collecting / Frederick Baekeland.

Summary:

This volume brings together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections. Together these collected writings examine the part that objects play in our lives, how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. 'Interpreting Objects and Collections' begins by setting out the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. This is followed by a collection of papers discussing objects variously as historical documents, functioning material and as semiotic texts, as well as papers which examine the politics of objects and the methodology of object study. The papers in this second part look at the study of collections in their historical and conceptual context covering many topics including the use of collecting to structure individual identity, its effect on time and space and the construction of gender. There are also papers discussing collection and ideology, collection and social action and the methodology of collection study.--Publisher.

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ISBN:

0415112885 (hardback)
9780415112888 (hardback)
0415112893 (paperback)
9780415112895 (paperback)

Subject:

Collectors and collecting.
Collectors and collecting Europe History.
Museums Social aspects.
Collections.
Musées Aspect social.
Interpretation
Museumsbestand
Aufsatzsammlung
Materiële cultuur.
Verzamelingen.
Kunstbeschouwing.
Colecao museologica/museografica.
Objet (esthétique)
Archéologie Musées.
Art Musées.
Ethnologie Musées.
Collections ethnologiques.
Muséologie.
Europe
Museums Collections

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Pearce, Susan M., editor.
Leicester readers in museum studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110992
Call No.: ID AM231.I58; ID:96-B1842
Status: Available