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  • Aboriginal Religions in Australia

    An Anthology of Recent Writings

    de Françoise Dussart, Howard Morphy ...
    Series series Vitality of Indigenous Religions
    Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative way. The Dreaming, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value

    Edición de Howard Morphy, Robyn McKenzie ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes.Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding early-career researchers, this volume presents a diverse range of international case studies that ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Human Adaptation

    Edición de Howard Morphy, G. A. Harrison ...
    This book examines the concept of adaptation in four major fields in the human sciences. Genetic aspects are first considered through an examination of the human genes which have so far been identified as conferring survival value in particular environmental circumstances. The drift versus selection argument is also fully reviewed. The second contribution concerns the physiological changes which ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Becoming Art

    Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories

    de Howard Morphy ...
    Thirty years ago Australian Aboriginal art was little more than a footnote to world art. Today, it is considered to be an important contemporary art movement, often promoted as being connected to a deep cultural past. Becoming Art provides a new analysis of the shifting cultural and social contexts that surround the production of Aboriginal art. Transcending the boundaries between anthropology and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols

    Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities

    de Howard Morphy ...
    Series series Museums in Focus
    Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections.Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Animals into Art

    Edición de Howard Morphy ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Discovering Cook's Collections

    Edición de Howard Morphy, Michelle Hetherington ...
    Discovering Cook's Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages and contains essays by some of the world's leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures in the initial years of European contact as well as the collections' contemporary relevance to ... Leer más

    $19.69 USD

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  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    de John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Landscapes

    Ways of Imagining the World

    de Hilary P.M. Winchester ...
    Series series Insights Into Human Geography
    Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts. ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Uses of Heritage

    de Laurajane Smith ...
    Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world.Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, Smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edición de Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Re-Imagining the Museum

    Beyond the Mausoleum

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD