Interpreting Objects and Collections by Susan Pearce

Interpreting Objects and Collections by Susan Pearce

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 first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which discuss objects variously as historical documents, functioning material, and as semiotic texts, as well as those which examine the politics of objects and the methodology of object study. The second section, on the interpretation of collections, looks at the study of collections in their historical and conceptual context. Many topics are covered such as the study of collecting to structure individual identity, its affect on time and space and the construction of gender. There are also papers discussing collection and ideology, collection and social action and the methodology of collection study. 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.

Susan Pearce if Director of the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.

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ISBN 13	9780415112895
ISBN 10	0415112893
Titel	Interpreting Objects and Collections
Autor	Susan Pearce
Serie	Leicester Readers In Museum Studies
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1994-10-20
Seitenanzahl	360
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