Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture (History of Anthropology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029910320X ISBN 13: 9780299103200

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1985

Synopsis

History of Anthropology is a series of annual volumes, inaugurated in 1983, each of which treats an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. Objects and Others , the third volume, focuses on a number of questions relating to the history of museums and material culture the interaction of museum arrangement and anthropological theory; the tension between anthropological research and popular education; the contribution of museum ethnography to aesthetic practice; the relationship of humanistic and anthropological culture, and of ethnic artifact and fine art; and, more generally, the representation of culture in material objects. As the first work to cover the development of museum anthropology since the mid-nineteenth century, it will be of great interest and value not only to anthropologist, museologists, and historians of science and the social sciences, but also to those interested in "primitive" art and its reception in the Western world.

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From the Publisher

Other volumes in the series Volume 1, Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork

Volume 2, Functionalism Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology

Volume 4, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality

Volume 5, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology

Volume 6, Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility

Volume 7, Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge

Volume 8, Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition

About the Author

George W. Stocking, Jr., editor of this volume, is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. Since the appearance of his Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology in 1968, he has been the author of numerous articles and reviews in this field, including The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911: A Franz Boas Reader. His most recent work is Victorian Anthropology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029910320X
• ISBN 13: 9780299103200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Stocking George W.