Interpreting Objects and Collections -

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Résumé :
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Biographie:
Susan M. Pearce

Sommaire:
Part 1 Interpreting objects; Chapter 1 Museum objects, Susan M. Pearce; Chapter 2 The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings, IanHodder; Chapter 3 Things ain't what they used to be, DanielMiller; Chapter 4 Objects as meaning; or narrating the past, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 5 Death's head, cherub, urn and willow, J.Deetz, E.S.Dethlefsen; Chapter 6 Behavioural interaction with objects, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 7 A view of functionalism, EdmundLeach; Chapter 8 Culture as a system with subsystems, DavidClarke; Chapter 9 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view, IanHodder; Chapter 10 A view from the bridge, EdmundLeach; Chapter 11 Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology, RobertMcGhee; Chapter 12 Interpreting material culture, ChristopherTilley; Chapter 13 Commodities and the politics of value, ArjunAppadurai; Chapter 14 Why fakes?, MarkJones; Chapter 15 Cannibal tours, glass boxes and the politics of interpretation, MichaelAmes; Chapter 16 Craft, M.Shanks; Chapter 17 Towards a material history methodology, R.Elliot; Chapter 18 Thinking about things, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 19 Mind in matter: an introduction to material culture theory and method, JulesPrown; Chapter 20 Not looking at kettles, RayBatchelor; Chapter 21 Home interview questionnaire, with coding categories and definitions, M.Csikszentmihalyi, E.Halton; Part 2 Interpreting collections; Chapter 22 The urge to collect, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 23 The collection: between the visible and the invisible, KrzysztofPomian; Chapter 24 Notes on the history of collecting and of museums, EvaSchulz; Chapter 25 Another past, another context: exhibiting Indian art abroad, B.N.Goswamy; Chapter 26 Collecting reconsidered, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 27 Psychological aspects of art collecting, FrederickBaekeland; Chapter 28 No two alike: play and aesthetics in collecting, BrendaDanet, TamarKatriel; Chapter 29 Of mice and men: gender identity in collecting, RussellW.Belk, MelanieWallendorf; Chapter 30 Objects of desire, SusanStewart; Chapter 31 Collecting ourselves, J.Clifford; Chapter 32 The filth in the way, M.Thompson; Chapter 33 Art museums and the ritual of citizenship, CarolDuncan; Chapter 34 'The People's Show', CathyMullen; Chapter 35 Leicester Contemporary Collecting Project's questionnaire, SusanM.Pearce; Chapter 36 Beyond the Odyssey: interpretations of ethnographic writing in consumer behaviour, AnnammaJoy; Chapter 37 Collectors and collecting, Russell W.Belk; Chapter 38 Why they collect: collectors reveal their motivations, RuthFormanek;