Overview

The part which objects and collections play in our lives has recently become the subject of much interest and debate. This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The work discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation, and the interpretation of collections - the study of collections in their historical and conceptual context. This unique anthology of articles and extracts will be of inestimable value to all students and professionals involved in the interpretation of objects and collections.

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Author:   Susan Pearce (University of Leicester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.839kg
ISBN:  

9780415112888

ISBN 10:   0415112885
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   20 October 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Interpreting objects; Chapter 1 Museum objects, Susan M. Pearce; Chapter 2 The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings, IanHodder; Chapter 3 Things ain't what they used to be, DanielMiller; Chapter 4 Objects as meaning; or narrating the past, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 5 Death's head, cherub, urn and willow, J.Deetz, E.S.Dethlefsen; Chapter 6 Behavioural interaction with objects, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 7 A view of functionalism, EdmundLeach; Chapter 8 Culture as a system with subsystems, DavidClarke; Chapter 9 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view, IanHodder; Chapter 10 A view from the bridge, EdmundLeach; Chapter 11 Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology, RobertMcGhee; Chapter 12 Interpreting material culture, ChristopherTilley; Chapter 13 Commodities and the politics of value, ArjunAppadurai; Chapter 14 Why fakes?, MarkJones; Chapter 15 Cannibal tours, glass boxes and the politics of interpretation, MichaelAmes; Chapter 16 Craft, M.Shanks; Chapter 17 Towards a material history methodology, R.Elliot; Chapter 18 Thinking about things, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 19 Mind in matter: an introduction to material culture theory and method, JulesPrown; Chapter 20 Not looking at kettles, RayBatchelor; Chapter 21 Home interview questionnaire, with coding categories and definitions, M.Csikszentmihalyi, E.Halton; Part 2 Interpreting collections; Chapter 22 The urge to collect, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 23 The collection: between the visible and the invisible, KrzysztofPomian; Chapter 24 Notes on the history of collecting and of museums, EvaSchulz; Chapter 25 Another past, another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad, B.N.Goswamy; Chapter 26 Collecting reconsidered, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 27 Psychological aspects of art collecting, FrederickBaekeland; Chapter 28 No two alike: play and aesthetics in collecting, BrendaDanet, TamarKatriel; Chapter 29 Of mice and men: gender identity in collecting, RussellW.Belk, MelanieWallendorf; Chapter 30 Objects of desire, SusanStewart; Chapter 31 Collecting ourselves, J.Clifford; Chapter 32 The filth in the way, M.Thompson; Chapter 33 Art museums and the ritual of citizenship, CarolDuncan; Chapter 34 ‘The People's Show’, CathyMullen; Chapter 35 Leicester Contemporary Collecting Project's questionnaire, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 36 Beyond the Odyssey: interpretations of ethnographic writing in consumer behaviour, AnnammaJoy; Chapter 37 Collectors and collecting, Russell W.Belk; Chapter 38 Why they collect: collectors reveal their motivations, RuthFormanek;

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