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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Leicester readers in museum studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: xii, 343 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0415112885 (hbk)
  • 0415112893 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.4 PEA 20
LOC classification:
  • AM231 .I58 1994
Contents:
Introduction / Susan M. Pearce -- 1. Museum objects / Susan M. Pearce -- 2. The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings / Ian Hodder -- 3. Things ain't what they used to be / Daniel Miller -- 4. Objects as meaning; or narrating the past / Susan M. Pearce -- 5. Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / J. Deetz and E. S. Dethlefsen -- 6. Behavioural interaction with objects / Susan M. Pearce -- 7. A view of functionalism / Edmund Leach -- 8. Culture as a system with subsystems / David Clarke -- 9. Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view / Ian Hodder -- 10. A view from the bridge / Edmund Leach -- 11. Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology / Robert McGhee -- 12. Interpreting material culture / Christopher Tilley -- 13. Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- 14. Why fakes? / Mark Jones -- 15. Cannibal tours, glass boxes and the politics of interpretation / Michael Ames -- 16. Craft / M. Shanks --
17. Towards a material history methodology / R. Elliot et al. -- 18. Thinking about things / Susan M. Pearce -- 19. Mind in matter: an introduction to material culture theory and method / Jules Prown -- 20. Not looking at kettles / Ray Batchelor -- 21. Home interview questionnaire, with coding categories and definitions / M. Csikszentmihalyi and E. Halton -- 22. The urge to collect / Susan M. Pearce -- 23. The collection: between the visible and the invisible / Krzysztof Pomian -- 24. Notes on the history of collecting and of museums / Eva Schulz -- 25. Another past, another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad / B. N. Goswamy -- 26. Collecting reconsidered / Susan M. Pearce -- 27. Psychological aspects of art collecting / Frederick Baekeland -- 28. No two alike: play and aesthetics in collecting / Brenda Danet and Tamar Katriel -- 29. Of mice and men: gender identity in collecting / Russell W. Belk and Melanie Wallendorf --
30. Objects of desire / Susan Stewart -- 31. Collecting ourselves / J. Clifford -- 32. The filth in the way / M. Thompson -- 33. Art museums and the ritual of citizenship / Carol Duncan -- 34. 'The People's Show' / Cathy Mullen -- 35. Leicester Contemporary Collecting Project's questionnaire / Susan M. Pearce -- 36. Beyond the Odyssey: interpretations of ethnographic writing in consumer behaviour / Annamma Joy -- 37. Collectors and collecting / Russell W. Belk -- 38. Why they collect: collectors reveal their motivations / Ruth Formanek.
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Book Book The Mico University College General Stacks Non-fiction 069.4 PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 59654

Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-337) and index.

Introduction / Susan M. Pearce -- 1. Museum objects / Susan M. Pearce -- 2. The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings / Ian Hodder -- 3. Things ain't what they used to be / Daniel Miller -- 4. Objects as meaning; or narrating the past / Susan M. Pearce -- 5. Death's head, cherub, urn and willow / J. Deetz and E. S. Dethlefsen -- 6. Behavioural interaction with objects / Susan M. Pearce -- 7. A view of functionalism / Edmund Leach -- 8. Culture as a system with subsystems / David Clarke -- 9. Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view / Ian Hodder -- 10. A view from the bridge / Edmund Leach -- 11. Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology / Robert McGhee -- 12. Interpreting material culture / Christopher Tilley -- 13. Commodities and the politics of value / Arjun Appadurai -- 14. Why fakes? / Mark Jones -- 15. Cannibal tours, glass boxes and the politics of interpretation / Michael Ames -- 16. Craft / M. Shanks --

17. Towards a material history methodology / R. Elliot et al. -- 18. Thinking about things / Susan M. Pearce -- 19. Mind in matter: an introduction to material culture theory and method / Jules Prown -- 20. Not looking at kettles / Ray Batchelor -- 21. Home interview questionnaire, with coding categories and definitions / M. Csikszentmihalyi and E. Halton -- 22. The urge to collect / Susan M. Pearce -- 23. The collection: between the visible and the invisible / Krzysztof Pomian -- 24. Notes on the history of collecting and of museums / Eva Schulz -- 25. Another past, another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad / B. N. Goswamy -- 26. Collecting reconsidered / Susan M. Pearce -- 27. Psychological aspects of art collecting / Frederick Baekeland -- 28. No two alike: play and aesthetics in collecting / Brenda Danet and Tamar Katriel -- 29. Of mice and men: gender identity in collecting / Russell W. Belk and Melanie Wallendorf --

30. Objects of desire / Susan Stewart -- 31. Collecting ourselves / J. Clifford -- 32. The filth in the way / M. Thompson -- 33. Art museums and the ritual of citizenship / Carol Duncan -- 34. 'The People's Show' / Cathy Mullen -- 35. Leicester Contemporary Collecting Project's questionnaire / Susan M. Pearce -- 36. Beyond the Odyssey: interpretations of ethnographic writing in consumer behaviour / Annamma Joy -- 37. Collectors and collecting / Russell W. Belk -- 38. Why they collect: collectors reveal their motivations / Ruth Formanek.

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