1st Edition
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums An Anthropology of Donations
Introduction; Part I Motivations; 1 The self-enhancement motive; 2 Augmenting social status; 3 The investment motive; 4 Transmission of knowledge; Part II Museums; 5 Collection or museum; 6 Museums in east asia; 7 Gifts to museums in taiwan; 8 Founding a collection museum; 9 Museums and the imagined community; Part III Private collectors; 10 Early modern art collectors;11 Donations by collecting artists; 12 Asian art and culture; Conclusions on donations
Biography
Paul van der Grijp is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology of the University of Lyon and a former researcher of the Centre for Research and Documentation of Oceania in Marseilles and the Institute of East Asia Studies in Lyon. He conducted lengthy periods of fieldwork in the South Pacific and East-Asia.
