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Museums and the Future of Collecting.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knell, Simon J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2004.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • 1 Altered values: searching for a new collecting
  • 2 Collections and collecting
  • 3 Museums without collections: museum philosophy in West Africa
  • 4 The future of collecting: lessons from the past
  • 5 The Ashmolean Museum: a case study of eighteenth-century collecting
  • 6 The cartographies of collecting
  • 7 From curio to cultural document
  • 8 Contemporary popular collecting
  • 9 Collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion
  • 10 Collecting in time of war
  • 11 The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa
  • 12 Folk devils in our midst? Collecting from 'deviant' groups
  • 13 All legal and ethical? Museums and the international market in fossils
  • 14 What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland
  • 15 Who is steering the ship? Museums and archaeological fieldwork
  • 16 Collecting: reclaiming the art, systematising the technique
  • 17 Samdok: tools to make the world visible
  • 18 Professionalising collecting
  • 19 Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums
  • 20 Towards a national collection strategy: reviewing existing holdings
  • 21 Ranking collections
  • 22 Deaccessioning as a collections management tool
  • 23 Collecting live performance
  • 24 Redefining collecting
  • Index.