The collections in focus
Subtitle: the Musee d'ethnographie de Genève
By: editorial committee: Madeleine Leclair, Floriane Morin, Federica Tamarozzi ; texts: Steve Bourget, Danielle Buyssens, Roberta Colombo Dougoud, Jérôme Ducor, Christraud M. Geary, Christophe Gros, Ange Leccia, Madeleine Leclair, Floriane Morin, Federica Tamarozzi, Boris Wastlau ; photography: Johnathan Watts
Publisher: MEG, Musee d'ethnographie de Genève; Glénat
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Geneva; Morges
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9782940446469
Subjects: Catalogs; Ethnological museums and collections; Exhibitions; Material culture; Musée d'ethnographie de la ville de Genève
Work titles: Regards sur les collections
Notes: Exhibition catalog.

"Published to coincide with the opening of the permanent exhibition entitled "Les archives de la diversite humaine" ("The archives of human diversity"), inaugurated at he MEG on 31 October 2014"--Page 255.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-253).
Table of contents: title: The new MEG  -- Boris Wastlau; title: History of museums, history of the gaze  -- Danielle Buyssens; title: Sea  -- Ange Leccia; title: Asia  -- Jérôme Ducor :; title: Thos gods who take us for a ride: the seven divinities of happiness and the Butsuzō zui --; title: The Asian collections --; title: The Americas  -- Steve Bourget :; title: Crow spirit, nature, culture and kinship among hte Amerindians of the Northwest Coast of North America --; title: The Americas collections --; title: Europe  -- Federica Tamarozzi :; title: "He who sows shall reap:" European territories and heritage at the MEG --; title: The European collections --; title: Ethnomusicology  -- Madeleine Leclair :; title: Music and image, vibratory worlds --; title: The music collections --; title: Africa  -- Floriane Morin :; title: The MEG collection of the "Precursors of African Pictorial Art" --; title: The African collections --; title: Oceania  -- Roberta Colombo Dougoud :; title: On the notion of "change" in collections of Oceania objects --; title: The Oceania collections --; title: Music CD  -- Madeleine Leclair :; title: Archives internationales de musique populaire (AIMP) : a musical journey across five continents.