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Experiencing Materiality: Museum Perspectives by Valentina Gamberi 9781789209846
RRP: $152.66$123.33Representing a cutting-edge study of the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study examines the interaction between the human and the nonhuman in a museum setting usually... -
Visitors to the House of Memory: Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin by Victoria Bishop Kendzia 9781789208443
RRP: $41.08$33.43As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the... -
Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take by Leslie Ramos 9781848226289
RRP: $34.29$26.12Arts philanthropy is at a crucial moment: many arts organisations are facing a financial crisis, the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of existing funding structures, and various social initiatives and causes have thrown renewed focus on... -
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific by Kapila D. Silva 9780367569396
RRP: $75.46$65.94Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively understood and effectively managed without a... -
Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery: Hollywood Forever by Linda Levitt 9781138609785
RRP: $94.32$81.85Monuments and memorials commemorating the dead and past events around the world have recently gained importance, not least because we are living in an era in which many are driven to record and archive the events of their lives. Cemeteries, in... -
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities by Howard Morphy 9781138565593
RRP: $75.46$65.94Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections... -
The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan by Masaaki Morishita 9781138379015
RRP: $78.89$68.83This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. The author focuses on... -
Delivering the Visitor Experience: How to Create, Manage and Develop an Unforgettable Visitor Experience at your Museum by Rachel Mackay 9781783305490
RRP: $60.02$49.42Visitor experience has been a long neglected aspect of museum practise, receiving less academic attention than areas such as exhibition design or collections care. Despite this, the quality of the visitor experience is the single biggest factor which... -
The Best We Share: Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena by Christoph Brumann 9781800739468
RRP: $47.94$38.73The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and... -
Contested Holdings: Public and Private Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return by Felicity Bodenstein 9781800734234
RRP: $169.81$136.93Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering... -
Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult Heritage by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert 9781800733749
RRP: $169.81$136.93How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional... -
Views of Violence: Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials by Joerg Echternkamp 9781800736474
RRP: $47.94$38.73Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that... -
Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa by Leslie Witz 9781800735385
RRP: $169.81$136.93Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely... -
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls by Diana E. Marsh 9781800732018
RRP: $34.22$28.13Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian's... -
Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative: Nordic Maritime Museums' Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities by Annika Bunz 9781800733886
RRP: $169.81$136.93A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. The museum can thereby be directly linked to the site and its history. It... -
The Anticolonial Museum: Reclaiming Our Colonial Heritage by Bruno Brulon Soares 9781032437941
RRP: $63.45$55.80Brings together a collection of reflections on decolonisation through the observation of museum performance and discourse. The author considers current practices in response to the social claims of marginalised groups and activists. Draws from a... -
Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property by Helle Porsdam 9780367598655
RRP: $68.59$60.14What is the relationship between creativity, cultural heritage institutions and copyright? Who owns culture and cultural heritage? The digital age has expanded the horizon of creative possibilities for artists and cultural institutions - what is the... -
Museums as Cultures of Copies: The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity by Brita Brenna 9780367663292
RRP: $68.59$60.14Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning... -
Contemporary Museums: Tension between Universalist and Communitarian Approaches by Yves Girault 9781786307453
RRP: $226.42$195.90At the center of current debates surrounding the social function of museums, questions concerning museum activities and the participation of both inhabitants and the public arise. In 2019, these questions were the subject of many heated debates at the... -
Museums as Assemblage: Analysing dynamic museum practice by Jasmin Pfefferkorn 9781032492049
RRP: $85.75$74.62This book, Uses the concept of assemblage to unpack relations between visitors, artists, museum staff, and the museum’s nonhuman components, providing an analytical framework that celebrates the complexity of museums today. takes the Museum of Old and... -
Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis: Biennales as Agents of Change by Felicity Fenner 9780367672751
RRP: $34.29$30.34The book is largely focused on biennales, which it argues are the contemporary exhibition models with the greatest capacity to offer new perspectives and propose alternative ways of connecting with our social and natural environments. The author... -
Communities and Museums in the 21st Century: Shared Histories and Climate Action by Karen Brown 9781032288413
RRP: $63.45$56.481. Drawing upon a Horizon2020 project and endorsed by ICOM, this book brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage,... -
Interpreting Objects in the Hybrid Museum: Convergence, Collections and Cultural Policy by Helena Robinson 9780367670207
RRP: $34.29$30.34Interpreting Objects in the Hybrid Museum examines the recent trend for converged collecting institutions and uses its investigation as a catalyst for critical reflection by all stakeholders on the risks, as well as advantages, of integration for... -
Heritage is Movement: Heritage Management and Research in a Diverse and Plural World by Tod Jones 9781032448039
RRP: $231.57$201.17This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It addresses the ways physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes of management, access and care. The book analyzes a... -
Hip Heritage and Museum Practices in Contemporary Hybrid Markets by Lizette Gradén 9781032356204
RRP: $231.57$201.17Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums.Drawing on ethnographic... -
Architectural Conservation in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: National Experiences and Practice by John Stubbs 9780367654436
RRP: $132.06$116.73- The first comprehensive, country-by-country and island-by-island view of contemporary architectural conservation practice throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands - Stresses national experiences and practice and emphasises the context,... -
Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe by Rodney Harrison 9781800083950
RRP: $77.19$68.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083950Author Rodney HarrisonFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 910g -
Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe by Rodney Harrison 9781800083943
RRP: $51.46$45.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083943Author Rodney HarrisonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 500g -
Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A New Model for a Challenging Era by Haitham Eid 9780367671549
RRP: $68.59$60.14Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship makes a contribution towards building a museum perspective of innovation that takes into consideration the unique role of museums in society. Beginning and ending with the idea of museum innovation in a wider... -
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Experiences of Return in Central Australia by Jason M. Gibson 9780367745097
RRP: $85.75$74.62Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians. Combining a critical... -
Digitization and Culture in Vietnam by Emma Duester 9781032403762
RRP: $85.75$74.62Investigates the significance of digitization in Vietnamese culture. Built around interviews with cultural professionals. Will be of interest to scholars and reflective practitioners involved with the cultural and creative industries in South East Asia... -
Fundraising Management in a Changing Museum World by Kate Brueggemann 9781032104737
RRP: $56.59$50.021. The book provides guidance that will enable readers to successfully create sustainable fundraising programs that will increase financial support and stabilize revenue during times of change. 2. The book will help readers to understand how they can... -
Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing: Voices of Country by Norm Sheehan 9780367706883
RRP: $63.45$55.801. The book foregrounds the voices of Australian Aboriginal people who are involved in ‘Caring for Country’. 2. The text is an essential resource for those engaged in the study of Country, heritage, museums, indigenous peoples, landscape architecture,... -
Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal: Mother Stuff by Rebecca Louise-Clarke 9781032106373
RRP: $85.75$74.62Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal is the first book to address the underrepresentation of motherhood in museums. Questioning how mothering and maternal experiences should be represented in museums, Louise-Clarke argues that such... -
Caribbean Cultural Heritage and the Nation: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in a Regional Context by Alex van Stipriaan 9789087283827
RRP: $193.83$184.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087283827Author Alex van StipriaanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
National Museums in Africa: Identity, History and Politics by Raymond Silverman 9781032058535
RRP: $68.59$60.14National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives. Covering all regions of the continent, the... -
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe by Britta Timm Knudsen 9780367569617
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book includes contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions... -
Museums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey by Lorenzo Posocco 9780367512484
RRP: $34.29$30.34Drawing on case studies and interviews from Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey, the book investigates how the past has been exploited to serve the interests of nationalism in the twenty-first century, and how museums themselves are exploited to serve... -
Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects: From Mesolithic to Eco-queer by Thomas Houlton 9781032137506
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book traces historical developments in monuments alongside contemporary movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter. It provides an in-depth critique of monument sites, as well as new critical and conceptual methodologies for thinking... -
The Heritage Corridor: A Transnational Approach to the Heritage of Chinese Migration by Denis Byrne 9780367543174
RRP: $34.29$30.34Presenting an image of the built environment of migration as one shaped by the ongoing flows of people, ideas, objects and money that circulate through migration corridors, the author proposes that houses and other structures built by migrants in their...