Narrating objects, collecting stories
Subtitle: essays in honour of professor Susan M. Pearce
By: edited by Sandra Dudley ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pearce, Susan M.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon; N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415692717; 9780203120125
Subjects: Museums; Philosophy; Collectors and collecting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : objects, collectors and representations / Sandra Dudley; title: String figure making : processes of objectification and embodiment / Dinah Eastop; title: The material culture of conflict : artefacts in the museum of Free Derry, Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke; title: Using souvenirs to rethink how we tell histories of migration : some thoughts / Andrea Witcomb; title: What the water has given me : Frida Kahlo's postcolonial map of Mexico / Margaret Lindauer; title: Between ornament and hygiene : modernity in the domestic space of São Paulo / Vania Carvalho; title: Stones, one landscape and many stories : cultural biography and the early medieval sculptures of Inchyra and St Madoes, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland / Mark Hall; title: Becoming ancient ruins : monastic remains as "facts on the ground" / Deidre O'Sullivan; title: An actor-network perspective on collecting and collectables / Fiona Cheetham; title: Collecting and displaying identity, intimacy and memory in the staged interiors of the royal couturier Norman Hartnell / Jane Hattrick; title: Designing a political space / Claire Leighton; title: Charles Bell's collection of "curios" : acquisitions and encounters during a Himalayan journey / Emma Martin; title: "He knows me, but not at the museum" : women, collecting and museums, 1880-1914 / Kate Hill; title: Lost in translation : interpreting ethnographic reconstructions of African ironworking / Len Pole; title: Objects of subversion : contested spaces, competing stories and the material culture of motoring / Jennifer Clark; title: Public displays of private collections : presenting the collection of Eleni Stathatos to the museum visitor / Alexandra Bounia; title: People and their things in archaeological displays / Ann Brysbaert.