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    Museum objects : experiencing the properties of things / edited by Sandra H. Dudley.

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    • Title:Museum objects : experiencing the properties of things / edited by Sandra H. Dudley.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Dudley, Sandra H.
    • Published/Created:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Museums--Social aspects.
      Museums--Psychological aspects.
      Museum exhibits--Social aspects.
      Museum exhibits--Psychological aspects.
      Material culture--Social aspects.
      Material culture--Psychological aspects.
      Senses and sensation--Social aspects.
      Senses and sensation--Psychological aspects.
    • Description:xxix, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    • Series:Leicester readers in museum studies.
    • Summary:Museum objects" provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and definition of the object itself, the senses and embodied experience of objects. No other volume brings together such perspectives in this way, and no other volume includes such a focus on the museum context. 00.
    • Notes:"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780415581776 (hbk. : alk. paper)
      041558177X (hbk. : alk. paper)
      9780415581783 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0415581788 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Encountering a Chinese horse: engaging with the thingness of things / Sandra H. Dudley
      pt. I OBJECTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
      Introduction to Part I / Sandra H. Dudley
      2. Museum objects / Susan M. Pearce
      3. aesthetic of the antique / Leon Rosenstein
      4. On looking at a Tahitian god-house / Steven Hooper
      5. Making life beautiful: my experience of doing beadwork / Anna Maclennan
      6. Knitting is... / Sabrina Gschwandtner
      7. Malangan: objects, sacrifice and the production of memory / Susanne Kuchler
      8. Ere the substance fade: photography and hair jewellery / Geoffrey Batchen
      9. Preparing and conserving / Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
      pt. II EXPERIENCING OBJECTS
      Introduction to Part II / Sandra H. Dudley
      10. materiality of cultural construction / David Morgan
      11. surface of objects and museum style / Ernst Van De Wetering
      12. Art and the brain / Semir Zeki
      13. event of seeing: a phenomenological perspective on visual sense-making / Olga Belova
      14. Senses and sensibility in Byzantium / Liz James
      15. Disaffected / Anna Gibbs
      16. state of wonder / Peter De Bolla
      17. Sensory exile in the field / Sandra H. Dudley
      18. In the British Museum / Thomas Hardy
      pt. III CONTEXTS OF EXPERIENCING OBJECTS
      Introduction to Part III / Sandra H. Dudley
      19. Ideas versus things: the balancing act of interpreting historic house museums / Kim Christensen
      20. Towards an erotics of the museum / Julie Marcus
      21. For your eyes only? The magic touch of relics / Jan Geisbusch
      22. `Marvels of everyday vision': the anthropology of aesthetics and the cattle-keeping Nilotes / Jeremy Coote
      23. Sense matters: aesthetic values of the Great Barrier Reef / Celmara Pocock
      24. Observed decay: telling stories with mutable things / Caitlin Desilvey
      25. Handmade textiles: global markets and authenticity / Victoria L. Rovine
      26. Museum Balanga as a site of cultural hybridization / Christina F. Kreps
      pt. IV OBJECT/PERSON DISTINCTIONS
      Introduction to Part IV / Sandra H. Dudley
      27. Objects, agency and museums: continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge / Anita Herle
      28. Resonant materiality and violent remembering: archaeology, memory and bombing / Gabriel Moshenska
      29. intangibility of things / Simon J. Knell
      30. `Things' as social agents / Alfred Gell
      31. Art as a mode of action: some problems with Gell's Art and Agency / Howard Morphy
      32. Blind Man's Stick (BMS) hypothesis / Lambros Malafouris
      33. Making culture and weaving the world / Tim Ingold.
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