Museum and Heritage Studies

Displaced Things

By Sandra H. Dudley

Displaced Things explores the movements of material things from one setting to another. Its analysis examines how the qualities of objects, and the meanings and values with which they are attributed, change as they are repeatedly re-contextualised. The volume argues that our understanding of the...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

Edited by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international,...

Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Museum Objects

Experiencing the Properties of Things

Edited by Sandra H. Dudley

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

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...

Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge

The Thing about Museums

Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation

Edited by Sandra Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of...

Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge

Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

Edited by Juliette Fritsch

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation...

Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections

The Crisis of Cultural Authority

By Tiffany Jenkins

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique...

Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge

Museum Materialities

Objects, Engagements, Interpretations

Edited by Sandra Dudley

This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise...

Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge

Contested Objects

Material Memories of the Great War

Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders, Paul Cornish

Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel helmet to practice trenches on Salisbury...

Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge

The Object Reader

Edited by Fiona Candlin, Raiford Guins

Series: In Sight: Visual Culture

This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields. The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and capacities...

Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge

Museums in the Material World

Edited by Simon Knell

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge

Objects

Reluctant Witnesses to the Past

By Chris Caple

An invaluable field textbook, Objects examines detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can and have been used to study ancient artefacts. From the Bayeux Tapestry to small...

Published June 27th 2006 by Routledge

On Collecting

An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition

By Susan Pearce

Series: Collecting Cultures

On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on...

Published March 24th 1999 by Routledge

Colonialism and the Object

Empire, Material Culture and the Museum

Edited by Tim Barringer, Tom Flynn

Series: Museum Meanings

Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. The book includes intensive...

Published December 17th 1997 by Routledge

Collections Management

Edited by Anne Fahy

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Collections Management brings together leading papers exploring some of the major issues affecting collections management. Providing information about initiatives and issues for anyone involved in collections management, Fahy identifies the main issues relating to collecting and disposal of...

Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge

Interpreting Objects and Collections

Edited by Susan Pearce

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the...

Published October 19th 1994 by Routledge