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Treasury - Kunstkammer - Museum : objects from the Islamic world in the museum collections of Vienna.
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ISBN: 9783700169529 3700169523 Year: 2011 Volume: 822 62 Publisher: Wien Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften


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Hunting the collectors
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ISBN: 144384828X 9781443848282 144382660X 9781443826600 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Castle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars

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This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importa...


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Modern Crises And Traditional Strategies : Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 0857452835 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books,

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The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing enviro


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The Lives of Chinese Objects
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ISBN: 9780857452382 9780857452399 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Gentlemen, prolétaires et primitifs : institutionnalisation, pratiques de collection et choix muséographiques dans l'ethnographie suisse, 1880-1950
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ISBN: 9783034305617 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bern : P. Lang,


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The lives of Chinese objects : Buddhism, imperialism and display
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ISBN: 0857452398 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo - China's most important pilgrimage island - to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bom


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Fetish modernity : exhibition : [exhibition: Tervuren, Royal Museum for Central Africa, from 8 April to 4 September 2011]
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ISBN: 9789074752930 9074752934 Year: 2011 Publisher: Tervuren Royal Museum for Central Africa

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This publication has been produced for the exhibition Fetish Modernity, organised as part of the European project 'Ethnography Museums & World Cultures'. The exhibition will be presented in Tervuren from 8 April to 4 September 2011 and will travel to five partner museums until 2014. Lead Museum: Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium).Partner Museums: Musée du quai Branly (France), Pitt Rivers Museum (England), Müseum für Völkerkunde (Austria), National Museums of World Culture (Sweden), National Museum of Ethnology.


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Bruits : échos du patrimoine culturel immatériel : exposition : Neuchâtel, Musée d'Ethnographie, 2 octobre 2010-15 octobre 2011
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ISBN: 9782880780371 2880780373 Year: 2011 Publisher: Neuchâtel Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel


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Exhibitions : l'invention du sauvage
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ISBN: 9782330002602 2330002602 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Paris] : Actes Sud : Musée du quai Branly,


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Macedonian treasures : a tour through the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai
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ISBN: 9789606878404 9606878406 Year: 2011 Publisher: Athens Kapon Editions

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