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Title Objects of knowledge / edited by Susan Pearce.
Imprint London ; Atlantic Highlands : Athlone Press, 1990.

Series New research in museum studies ; 1
New research in museum studies ; 1.
Subject Museums -- Philosophy.
Museum techniques.
Alt Name Pearce, Susan M.
Series New research in museum studies ; 1
New research in museum studies ; 1.
Subject Museums -- Philosophy.
Museum techniques.
Alt Name Pearce, Susan M.
Description 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) : illustrations.
polychrome rdacc
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Objects, belief and power in mid-Victorian England : the origins of the Victoria and Albert Museum / Mark Goodwin -- The discursive object / Edwina Taborsky -- In the lair of the monkey : notes towards a post-modernist museography / Anthony Alan Shelton -- Object lessons in the museum medium / Ghislaine Lawrence -- Objects as meaning; or narrating the past / Susan Pearce -- Methodological museology; or, towards a theory of museum practice / Peter van Mensch -- Cultural empowerment and museums : opening up anthropology through collaboration / Michael M. Ames -- Knowing objects through an alternative learning system / Margriet Maton-Howarth -- Reviews edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: Can futurism find a place in the Museum of the River? / John C. Carter -- The Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago / Helen Coxall -- Marketing the arts : foundations for success / Nigel Wright.
The film Art of Darkness by David Dabydean / M.D. King -- Museums 2000 / Mahi Gazi -- Co-operation and curatorship : the Swedish-African Museums Programme / Gaynor Kavanagh -- Louis Auchincloss The golden calves, 1988 / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Daniel Miller Material culture and mass consumption 1988 / Susan M. Pearce -- Arnold Tyonbee and Daisaker Ikeda Choose life : a dialogue 1989 / Susan M. Pearce.
Summary Volume 1 in a series designed to act as a forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research currently being undertaken in the field of Museum Studies. The series aims to cover the whole museum field and to broadly address the history and operation of the museum as a cultural phenomenon. The papers published are of a high academic standard, and are also intended to relate directly to matters of immediate museum concern. The publication aims to fill a major gap in the present scope of museum-based literature. This volume is concerned with the ways in which meaning is created through mus.
Note Print version record.
ISBN 9780567536662 (electronic bk.)
0567536661 (electronic bk.)
9780485900019
0485900017
OCLC # 654411581
Additional Format Print version: Objects of knowledge. London ; Atlantic Highlands : Athlone Press, 1990 9780485900019 (DLC) 90001021 (OCoLC)21949794



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