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9781571818256

Academic Anthropology and the Museum Back to the Future

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    9781571818256

  • ISBN10:

    1571818251

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Summary

The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. However, the (re-) invention of museum anthropology presents a series of challenges for academic teaching and research, as well as for the work of cultural production in contemporary museums -- issues that are explored in this volume.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Futurep. 1
Anthropological encounters with the post-colonial museum
The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umista Centre, Alert Bayp. 18
Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empirep. 36
On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artefactsp. 55
Ethnographic museums and ethnographic museology 'at home'
Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musee National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Parisp. 76
'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years Laterp. 92
Science museums as an ethnographic challenge
Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and usp. 106
Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London. Knowing, making and usingp. 117
Anthropologists as cultural producers
Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discoursep. 142
Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academyp. 142
The art of exhibition making as a problem of translationp. 177
Looking ahead
Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillasp. 200
Bibliographyp. 212
Indexp. 231
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