Interpreting Objects and Collections (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Pearce, Susan

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134830381
• Artikelnr.: 38261750

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Pearce

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Interpreting objects; Chapter 1 Museum objects
Susan M. Pearce; Chapter 2 The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings
IanHodder; Chapter 3 Things ain't what they used to be
DanielMiller; Chapter 4 Objects as meaning; or narrating the past
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 5 Death's head
cherub
urn and willow
J.Deetz
E.S.Dethlefsen; Chapter 6 Behavioural interaction with objects
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 7 A view of functionalism
EdmundLeach; Chapter 8 Culture as a system with subsystems
DavidClarke; Chapter 9 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view
IanHodder; Chapter 10 A view from the bridge
EdmundLeach; Chapter 11 Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology
RobertMcGhee; Chapter 12 Interpreting material culture
ChristopherTilley; Chapter 13 Commodities and the politics of value
ArjunAppadurai; Chapter 14 Why fakes?
MarkJones; Chapter 15 Cannibal tours
glass boxes and the politics of interpretation
MichaelAmes; Chapter 16 Craft
M.Shanks; Chapter 17 Towards a material history methodology
R.Elliot; Chapter 18 Thinking about things
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 19 Mind in matter: an introduction to material culture theory and method
JulesPrown; Chapter 20 Not looking at kettles
RayBatchelor; Chapter 21 Home interview questionnaire
with coding categories and definitions
M.Csikszentmihalyi
E.Halton; Part 2 Interpreting collections; Chapter 22 The urge to collect
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 23 The collection: between the visible and the invisible
KrzysztofPomian; Chapter 24 Notes on the history of collecting and of museums
EvaSchulz; Chapter 25 Another past
another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad
B.N.Goswamy; Chapter 26 Collecting reconsidered
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 27 Psychological aspects of art collecting
FrederickBaekeland; Chapter 28 No two alike: play and aesthetics in collecting
BrendaDanet
TamarKatriel; Chapter 29 Of mice and men: gender identity in collecting
RussellW.Belk
MelanieWallendorf; Chapter 30 Objects of desire
SusanStewart; Chapter 31 Collecting ourselves
J.Clifford; Chapter 32 The filth in the way
M.Thompson; Chapter 33 Art museums and the ritual of citizenship
CarolDuncan; Chapter 34 'The People's Show'
CathyMullen; Chapter 35 Leicester Contemporary Collecting Project's questionnaire
SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 36 Beyond the Odyssey: interpretations of ethnographic writing in consumer behaviour
AnnammaJoy; Chapter 37 Collectors and collecting
Russell W.Belk; Chapter 38 Why they collect: collectors reveal their motivations
RuthFormanek;