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  • Challenging History in the Museum

    International Perspectives

    by Jenny Kidd, Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall ...
    Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners and academics to explore heritage and museum learning programmes in relation to difficult and controversial subjects. The book is divided into four ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Re-Imagining the Museum

    Beyond the Mausoleum

    by Andrea Witcomb ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices.Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. She argues that museums are key ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Creating Exhibitions

    Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences

    by Polly McKenna-Cress, Janet Kamien ...
    “This is a must-read for the nervous novice as well as the world-weary veteran. The book guides you through every aspect of exhibit making, from concept to completion. The say the devil is in the details, but so is the divine. This carefully crafted tome helps you to avoid the pitfalls in the process, so you can have fun creating something inspirational. It perfectly supports the dictum—if you don ... Read more

    $59.00 USD

  • Managing Conservation in Museums

    by Suzanne Keene ...
    Explaining and critically reviewing management procedures such as performance indicators and strategic planning, this book shows how techniques from mainstream management can be used to facilitate a holistic and professional approach to the business of conservation and collection preservation. It offers practical guidance on strategy, quantitative planning and condition surveying, and presents ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Intangible Heritage

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Laurajane Smith, Natsuko Akagawa, Natsuko Akagawa ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of ‘intangible heritage’ to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined and managed in both national and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Recoding the Museum

    Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

    by Ross Parry ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the functions of the computer that explains this disconnect?Drawing upon an impressive range of professional ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • World Heritage on the Ground

    Ethnographic Perspectives

    Edited by David Berliner, Christoph Brumann ...
    Series Book 28 - EASA Series
    The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage

    Edited by David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig ...
    The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one’s intellectual and geographical position. In discourses influenced by the natural sciences ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Museum Bodies

    The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing

    by Helen Rees Leahy ...
    Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised, both formally and informally, and their behaviour calibrated as a register of cognitive receptivity and cultural competence. Yet there has ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Conservation of Furniture

    by Shayne Rivers, Nick Umney ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology
    This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • Crafting 'The Indian'

    Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

    by Petra Tjitske Kalshoven ...
    In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. “Indian hobbyists” dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as ... Read more

    $23.79 USD