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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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Cet ouvrage retrace la construction des savoirs africanistes, de leurs médiations et des collections africaines qui en furent le résultat en France et en Allemagne. Au moyen d'une approche croisée d'historiens, d'ethnologues, de muséologues et de germanistes, le livre interroge les interactions culturelles, les transferts matériels et intellectuels s'opérant entre Européens et Africains, depuis le milieu du XIXe siècle jusqu'à l'indépendance. Il attire ainsi l'attention sur les transitions à l'oeuvre dans la fabrique du discours ethnologique, les maillons de la collecte des données et l'appréhension des savoirs en situation coloniale. L'histoire des prémices de la discipline, au prisme de la France et de l'Allemagne, met en exergue la complexité du regard européen sur l'Afrique coloniale comme celle des représentations qui en furent le résultat en Europe. Est également examinée la perception qu'en eurent les acteurs africains ayant pris une part active à ces échanges et qui en furent, avant les Allemands et les Français, les principaux protagonistes. (4ème de couv.).

Ethnology --- Ethnological museums and collections --- Africanists. --- History --- Europe --- Africa --- Colonies --- Relations --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Ethnological collections --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Museums --- Gay culture Europe

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How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised 'elsewhere' and 'otherwise'. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland, and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. 'Across Anthropology' charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe's reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies.

#SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Toegepaste antropologie --- 325 --- 902 --- 39 --- 902 Archeologie --- Archeologie --- 325 Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek)--EU --- Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek)--EU --- 39 Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- 39 Cultural anthropology. Ethnography. Customs. Manners. Traditions. Way of life --- Cultural anthropology. Ethnography. Customs. Manners. Traditions. Way of life --- Postcolonialism --- Anthropological ethics --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Museology --- Sociology of minorities --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Belgium

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The Penn Museum has a long and storied history of research and archaeological exploration in the ancient Middle East. This book highlights this rich depth of knowledge while also serving as a companion volume to the Museum's signature Middle East Galleries opening in April 2018. This edited volume includes chapters and integrated short, focused pieces from Museum curators and staff actively involved in the detailed planning of the new galleries. In addition to highlighting the most remarkable and interesting objects in the Museum's extraordinary Middle East collections, this volume illuminates the primary themes within these galleries (make, settle, connect, organize, and believe) and provides a larger context within which to understand them.The ancient Middle East is home to the first urban settlements in human history, dating to the fourth millennium BCE; therefore, tracing this move toward city life figures prominently in the book. The topic of urbanization, how it came about and how these early steps still impact our daily lives, is explored from regional and localized perspectives, bringing us from Mesopotamia (Ur, Uruk, and Nippur) to Islamic and Persianate cites (Rayy and Isfahan) and, finally, connecting back to life in modern Philadelphia. Through examination of topics such as landscape, resources, trade, religious belief and burial practices, daily life, and nomads, this very important human journey is investigated both broadly and with specific case studies.

Anthropological museums and collections --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Cities and towns --- Urbanization --- African Studies. --- Archaeology. --- Asian Studies. --- Middle Eastern Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Human settlements --- Archaeological collections --- Antiquities --- Museums --- Anthropological collections --- Anthropology --- History. --- Collection and preservation --- University of Pennsylvania. --- Middle East --- Civilization. --- Antiquities.