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Ceramiche vicinorientali della Collezione Popolani
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ISBN: 1784914657 1784914649 9781784914653 9781784914646 Year: 2016 Publisher: Oxford

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Weapons, culture and the anthropology museum
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ISBN: 1527510484 9781527503755 1527503755 9781527510487 1527503755 Year: 2018 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However, the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the world, showcase a society's most complex technologies, and encode a wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict, cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume brings together an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and material culture specialists to address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future treatment of world weaponry.


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Les antiquités chypriotes dans les collections publiques françaises
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ISBN: 9963560032 9789963560035 Year: 1987 Publisher: Nicosie: Fondation A. G. Leventis,

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Memory and ethnicity
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ISBN: 1443854662 9781443854665 1306309212 9781306309219 144385252X 9781443852524 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

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In recent times, ethnicity and issues of origin have become a hotly debated topic among Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This is particularly true both of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, who for years had remained at the margins of the Israeli national narrative, as well as the Israeli Palestinian minority. Much the same may be said of Diaspora Jews. Among the public spaces where ethnicity has become more visible are museums, together with heritage centres, art galleries,...


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The value of an archaeological open-air museum is in its use : understanding archaeological open-air museums and their visitors
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ISBN: 1299281850 9088901236 9789088901232 9088901031 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology. They have an important role as education facilities and many showcase archaeology in a variety of ways. Compared to other museum categories, archaeological open-air museums boast a wide variety of manifestations. This research assesses the value of archaeological open-air museums, their management and their visitors, and is the first to

Archaeological site museums in Latin America
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ISBN: 0813037743 9780813037745 0813030013 9780813030012 Year: 2006 Publisher: Gainesville University Press of Florida

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This handbook for archaeologists and heritage managers can readily be incorporated into museum, heritage, and ethics courses, and actual field strategies.


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The anthropology of expeditions
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ISBN: 1941792014 9781941792018 9781941792001 1941792006 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York

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"In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the role of these journeys in natural history and anthropology between approximately 1890 and 1930. By examining collected materials as well as museum and archive records, the contributors to this volume shed light on the complex social life and intimate work practices of the researchers involved in these expeditions. At the same time, the contributors also demonstrate the methodological challenges and rewards of studying these legacies and provide new insights for the history of collecting, history of anthropology, and histories of expeditions. Offering fascinating insights into the nature of expeditions and the human relationships that shaped them, The Anthropology of Expeditions sets a new standard for the field. "--

Museums and source communities
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ISBN: 1134463790 1280142049 0203987837 9780203987834 0415280516 0415280524 9780415280518 9780415280525 9781134463794 9781134463749 113446374X 9781134463787 1134463782 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:the museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaborationvisual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ances


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Matters of belonging : ethnographic museums in a changing Europe
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ISBN: 9789088907777 9088907773 9789088907784 9088907781 908890779X 9789088907791 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden : Sidestone Press,

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Matters of Belonging brings to the foreground critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. The book emerges from the EU-funded project SWICH (Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage) that places ethnographic museums at the centre of ongoing debates about Europe's shifting polity and questions around heritage, citizenship and belonging. Addressing diverse political climates and citizenship regimes, legal frameworks and colonial/migratory histories, the articles seek to question the role of ethnographic and world cultures museums within contemporary negotiations of how to define Europe, Europeans, and European heritage, especially mindful of the region's colonial and migratory pasts. The book is neither celebratory nor congratulatory, and does not depict a triumphal overcoming by ethnographic museums of their troubled pasts. Its aim is to think critically about these museums' responses, to identify both pitfalls and positive developments, and to sketch out possible futures for museums generally, and ethnographic museums specifically, as they try to locate themselves within discussions about Europe and its futures. Central to the book's argument is that it may exactly be in their entanglement with the colonial past that these museums can become important sites for thinking about colonial entailments in the present. Facing up to this past is the beginning of addressing these larger legacies. The authors suggest that the ethnographic museum has been the site not just for trenchant questioning of colonial durabilities in contemporary Europe, but also for the development of new practices - of collaboration and authority-sharing, of recognition and belonging. This book explores these models, not as complete, but as starting points to push forward new practices.


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Museums : a visual anthropology
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ISBN: 9781845208127 9781845208110 9780857852113 9780857852120 0857852116 0857852116 0857852124 1845208110 1845208129 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Berg

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Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highli

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