World archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum : a characterization /
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'World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum' introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. In 29 newly-commissioned essays written by a specialist team, the volume explores more than 136,000 artefacts from 145 countries, from the Stone Age to the modern period, and from England to Easter Island. Pioneering a new approach in museum studies, this landmark volume is an essential reference work for archaeologists around the world, and a unique introduction to the archaeological collections of one of the world's most famous museums.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784910754 (PDF ebook) :
Handbook to the ethnographical collections /
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Includes indexes.
"This edition has been prepared by Mr. T.A. Joyce, deputy keeper of the Department [of Ceramics and Ethnography], with the help of his assistant, Mr. H.J. Braunholtz"--Pref.; signed: R.L. Hobson, keeper. :
xvi, 319 pages, 20 leaves of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 22 cm.
Mediating museums : exhibiting material culture in Tunisia (1881-2016) /
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This book documents and interprets the trajectory of ethnographic museums in Tunisia from the colonial to the post-revolutionary period, demonstrating changes and continuities in role, setting and architecture across shifting ideological landscapes. The display of everyday culture in museums is generally looked down upon as being kitsch and old-fashioned. This research shows that, in Tunisia, ethnographic museums have been highly significant sites in the definition of social identities. They have worked as sites that diffuse social, economic and political tensions through a vast array of means, such as the exhibition itself, architecture, activities, tourism, and consumerism. The book excavates the evolution of paradigms in which Tunisian popular identity has been expressed through the ethnographic museum, from the modernist notion of 'indigenous authenticity' under colonial time, to efforts at developing a Tunisian ethnography after Independence, and more recent conceptions of cultural diversity since the revolution. Based on a combination of archival research in Tunisia and in France, participant observation and interviews with past and present protagonists in the Tunisian museum field, this research brings to light new material on an understudied area.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004394971