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In the years since the completion of Jrn Utzons Sydney Opera House countries throughout the South Pacific have displayed a particular fascination with the possibility that architecture ma...
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of th...
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Sustainable Lifeways addresses forces of conservatism and innovation in societies dependent on the exploitation of aquatic and other wild resources, agriculture, and specialized pastorali...
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The ICMS Handbook is acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures. It was first published as A Basic Guide to Museum Security , and is now fully revised,...
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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 colonizati...
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In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of intangible heritage. She charts the rise of intangible he...
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Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus p...
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Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concep...
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Museums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in museums can exceed their designated roles as document...
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Some of the greatest archaeological sites in the world are found in Latin America, and archaeological tourism is widely touted as a solution to the poverty that plagues much of this regio...
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Visitors to museums, galleries, heritage sites and other not for profit attractions receive their information in changing ways. Communications channels are shifting and developing all the...
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The protection and security of cultural properties is of primary concern to the thousands of federal, state, county, city, and private institutions entrusted with housing and displaying o...
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An inside look by designers and clients at graphic design's main playground and proving ground--working for cultural institutions. Originality is the guiding principle of art and culture....
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between mem...
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This volume presents a new reading of an extraordinary Proto-Coptic magical text. "Papyrus British Museum EA 10808" features a unique spell for a victim of divine wrath composed in the li...
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Early Pithouse period villagers played a generative role in the cultural and historical sequence of the Mogollon region, which is best known for the stunning black-on-white pottery of t...
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Presenting diverse viewpoints and topics, this monograph includes the following sections:Part I presents a background on the study of cultural evolution.Part II deals with the evolution o...
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Collections management is a relatively new term in museums, and yet it is fundamental to what museums do and why they exist. To collect, display, care for, and provide access to museum ob...
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The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory is a major contribution to the archaeological literature of this part of the world. Written by one of the most important figures in Russian archaeology...
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This newly updated guide has a destination to suit every interest. See Florida through the eyes of the natives, pioneers, artists, statesmen, writers, and flamboyant figures who have call...
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Although it is one which has inspired fierce decade in the recent past, the question of the return of cultural objects is not a new one. This important book explores the removal and the r...
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This two-color travelers companion features more than 130 of Californias best missions, mansions, and museums. In addition to insider information on many of the destinations, the guide fe...
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The development of new digital technologies has led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfill their public missions of access, preservation, research, and educ...
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The book is a detailed exploration of various facets of Indian thought and life that make it a popular cultural tourist site for visitors from all over the world. It presents an account o...
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Presents studies focusing on world view and cultural change from five Amazonian communities. Documents some of the results of modernizing influences from the outside as well as some of th...
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This book has been designed to provide images and basic information on Mi'kmaq and Maliseet artifacts held in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Drawing on objects co...
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While most people are familiar with the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, few are aware of the scores of other wonderful museums throughout New Englan...
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In Thriving in the Knowledge Age, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard argue that museums require a radically new business model to survive the transition into the knowledge age. Only by shifti...
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This fascinating, well-researched guidebook describes for the first time in print the full gamut of museums, zoos, and botanical gardens in Wisconsin and the broad spectrum of cultural ar...
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Old Poisons, New Problems is a timely and welcome practical guide to identifying, testing for, and dealing with contaminated cultural materials archived in museum collections. With increa...
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Grand Scale brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size printsa Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous 16th-century woodcuts, engravings, and e...
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These notable homes, from the simplest houses to stately mansions, have been selected not only for their beauty or the fame and importance of their inhabitants, but because they tell a st...
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This important new book investigates the removal and return of cultural objects from occupied communities from the age of colonisation to the present day. Focusing on governments' and mus...
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