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Anthropological museums and collections. --- Anthropological museums and collections. --- Anthropology. --- Museums --- Organization & administration.

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"Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement considers changes that have been taking place in museum anthropology as it has been responding to pressures to be more socially relevant, useful, and accountable to diverse communities. Based on the author's own research and applied work over the past 30 years, the book gives examples of the wide-ranging work being carried out today in museum anthropology as both an academic, scholarly field and variety of applied, public anthropology. While it examines major trends that characterize our current "age of engagement," the book also critically examines the public role of museums and anthropology in colonial and postcolonial contexts, namely in the US, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. Throughout the book, Kreps questions what purposes and interests museums and anthropology serve in these different times and places. Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement is a valuable resource for readers interested in an historical and comparative study of museums and anthropology, and the forms engagement has taken. It should be especially useful to students and instructors looking for a text that provides in one volume a history of museum anthropology and methods for doing critical, reflexive museum ethnography and collaborative work"--

Anthropological museums and collections --- Anthropological museums and collections. --- Museums --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Indonesia. --- Netherlands. --- United States.

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Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number of motives, ranging from the commercial to the cultural political (and many combine both). A close study of this phenomenon is not only valuable for museological practice but, as has been argued, it may challenge our current bedrock assumptions about the very nature and purpose of the museum. This book looks to the future of museum practice through examining how museums have evolved particularly in the non-western world to incorporate the p

Ethnological museums and collections --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Ethnological collections --- Ethnology --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Museums