Title: Museums, objects, and collections :
Authors: Pearce, Susan M.
Date: 1993
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press,
Physical description: xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: 1. Museums, Objects and Collections -- 2. Objects Inside and Outside Museums -- 3. Collecting: Body and Soul -- 4. Collecting: Shaping the World -- 5. Museums: the Intellectual Rationale -- 6. Making Museum Meanings -- 7. Meaning as Function -- 8. Meaning as Structure -- 9. Meaning in History -- 10. Objects in Action -- 11. Problems of Power -- 12. Projects and Prospects -- Appendix: Models for object study.
Notes: First published in Great Britain in 1992 by Leicester University Press.
Subject headings (LCSH): Collectors and collecting.; Museum techniques.; Museums--Social aspects.