Extreme Collecting: Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museum
Were, Graeme and King, J. C. H. (editors)
Language: English
Published by Berghahn Books, 2014
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New York. 2014. Berghahn Books. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781782385141. 238 pages. paperback. keywords: Collecting Museums. DESCRIPTION - By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting difficult' objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical approach to the rigidity of museums in maintaining essentially nineteenth-century ideas of collecting; and to move towards identifying priorities for collection policies in museums, which are inclusive of acquiring difficult' objects. Much of the book engages with the question of the limits to the practice of collecting as a means to think through the implementation of new strategies. inventory #44448. …
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- Extreme Collecting: Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museum
- Author
- Were, Graeme and King, J. C. H. (editors)
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- Berghahn Books
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- 2014
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- Very Good in Wrappers
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- paperback
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- English
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- 1782385142
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- 9781782385141
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About the Author
Graeme Were is Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bristol. His current research focuses on material culture and ethnographic museums; digital heritage and source community engagement; and, ethnomathematics in the Pacific. His recent publications include Lines that Connect: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific (University of Hawai’i Press, 2010), and Pacific Pattern, with S. Küchler (Thames & Hudson, 2005). He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and an editor of the Journal of Material Culture.
J. C. H. King writes about the art and material culture of Native North America, and is interested in wider issues of museum ethnography, cultural policy and the visual arts, and the collection of contemporary art, photography, and ephemera. He became research Keeper of Anthropology at the British Museum, in 2010. His recent publications include: Three Centuries of Woodlands Art: A Collection of Essays (European Review of Native American Studies, 2007), ed. with C.F. Feest, Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760–1990, with H. Waterfield (Somogy, 2006) and Arctic Clothing, ed. with B. Pauksztat and R. Storrie (British Museum Press, 2005).
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