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Unconventional & Unexpected: Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000 is a stunning collection of approximately 150 quirky, eccentric, maverick and extraordinary quilts made predominantly by anonymous quilters in the United States during the last... more
This essay provides an analysis of the Andaman Islands exhibit at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. It explores the ways in which a display of near-life-size clay models, complete with indigenous-made manufactures, presented a... more
Once viewed as an embarrassing superstition, the theatrical religious performances of Korean shamans—who communicate with the dead, divine the future, and become possessed—are going mainstream. Attitudes toward Korean shamanism are... more
Syllabus for Native American Perspectives on Museums
This work is a book review considering the title A Companion to Heritage Studies, edited by William Logan, Máiread Nic Craith, and Ullrich Kockel.
This contribution draws on ethnography conducted in Istanbul to analyse the Museum of Shame, an amateur exhibition dedicated to the memory of leftist militants who were victims of state violence following the 1980–1983 military coup in... more
Este trabalho apresenta os artefatos Ameríndios amazônicos da Coleção Etnográfica do Centro Studi Americanistici 'Circolo Amerindiano', na Itália. Uma das mais importantes coleções etno-gráficas dedicadas aos povos Ameríndios, esta possui... more
The Islamic Period Museum of Iran was established, almost 16 years after the Islamic Revolution, as an addition to the previous National Museum building – the Iran Bastan, or Ancient Iran Museum – in 1996. By examining the components of... more
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The book remains the primary, most worthy route through which scholarly knowledge is disseminated. With the easy access to low-cost technology, new opportunities are emerging to expand knowledge transfer beyond the academic book. Using a... more
"Earlier provisional title was "Archaeology, Tourism, Museum...." "This chapter is divided into two distinct sections that are positioned in a point-counterpoint structure of dialogue. These two position statements invoke the... more
Julius Nestler, high school teacher and amateur archaeologist from Prague, brought home more than 3,500 archaeological and anthropological artifacts from his expedition to Bolivia (1909–1912). At present they are in the possession of the... more
This document was published as a centrepiece for Post Lifestyle, The Post Newspaper in 2010. It is technically a profile of the Livingstone National Museum in Zambia and is stored here by the author purely for archival purposes.
An earlier version of this text appeared in German in the publication "Museum unplugged – Eine Selbstbefragung" (2015), eds. Friedrich von Borries and Roland Nachtigäller, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the museum Marta... more
[Paper presented at 2015 conference in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan.] As a contribution to the international conference of "Valikhanov’s Readings," this paper briefly summarizes recent and on-going research and museum partnerships of the Asian... more
Looking beyond Poland's internationally lauded new Jewish museums, this article asks how Jews are represented in longer-standing folk and ethnographic museums whose mandates have been to represent the historical culture of the Polish... more
Бойко-Гагарін А.С. Застосування соціальних мереж у музейному маркетингу / А.С. Бойко-Гагарін // Матеріали міжнародної науково-практичної конференції, присвяченої 75-річчю Ізмаїльського державного гуманітарного університету ["Дунайські... more
Se analiza iconografía de una serie de estelas grabadas, descontextualizadas pero con probable sitio de hallazgo cercano a la frontera con Argentina. De alli que su filiación seria la CULTURA YAVI. Las imagenes grabadas confirman el... more
Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1881–1950), acknowledged as one of the most prolific anthropologists of the early 20th century, served as chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania for nearly four decades... more
Museology is a science.of museum. management and the main aim of this study-cum-training course is to train persons in such a way that they will be in a better position by being well qualified to develop and maintain museums. Museology by... more
Curs Master Studii Vizuale şi Societate, an 1, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice, Şcoala Naţională de Studii Politice şi Administrative. 2015
Autorka prezentuje współczesne techniki badań mumii egipskich oraz ich rozwój, począwszy od badań inwazyjnych, polegających głównie na rozwijaniu mumii, poprzez nieinwazyjne badania radiologiczne, a skończywszy na laboratoryjnych... more
The Norwegian Adrian Jacobsen collected seven thousand objects on the northwest coast of America and in Alaska for the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. He had close ties with the Hamburg zoo director Carl Hagenbeck, both in business and in... more