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Title Interpreting objects and collections / edited by Susan M. Pearce
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) : illustrations
Series Leicester readers in museum studies
Leicester readers in museum studies.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Museum objects; The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings; Things ain't what they used to be; Objects as meaning; or narrating the past; Death's head, cherub, urn and willow; Behavioural interaction with objects; A view of functionalism; Culture as a system with subsystems; Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view; A view from the bridge; Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology; Interpreting material culture
Summary Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things
Analysis Museums Collections
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index
Notes English
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Subject Collectors and collecting.
Collectors and collecting -- Europe -- History
Museums -- Social aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
REFERENCE -- General.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Collectors and collecting
Museums -- Social aspects
Aufsatzsammlung
Interpretation
Museumsbestand
Materiële cultuur.
Verzamelingen.
Kunstbeschouwing.
Colecao museologica/museografica.
Objet (esthétique)
Archéologie -- Musées.
Art -- Musées.
Ethnologie -- Musées.
Collections ethnologiques.
Muséologie.
Coleccionistas y colecciones.
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pearce, Susan M
LC no. 94011658
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