Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Museum Echoes
Author: Museum Echoes
Author: Echoes
Author: Bill MercerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999466803
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Museums are different than other educational institutions by virtue of their holding and using real objects, many of which are artifacts (having been made and/or used by humans). They generally reflect and represent the culture in which they were created. In one sense, they echo their original environment, and ¿speak¿ to us, having survived use, and maybe abuse, through subsequent exposures. Most have been removed from their original contexts, and restoring their histories through time is the major responsibility of museums when presenting them in exhibits, programs, or in a publication such as this one. These are what provide the opportunities for audience learning and appreciation. This book celebrates the collections of the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, Oklahoma. It is the first of several projected to acquaint readers with the breadth and depth of materials made available to our audiences. Prominently featured are works donated by Quintus H. Herron (1923-2014) and his family. He and his wife, Mary (1926-2007), were principal founders of the Museum in 1974-75, providing it with most of its collections in those earlier years, and many more since. The collections have also been augmented and enhanced through the generosity of many hundreds of other donors, including Herron extended-family members. While we are not able to showcase the entire collection, now numbering nearly 30,000 works, we can begin to present them outside our buildings with remote exhibits (e.g., rotating displays of Museum objects in four public libraries and the offices of several businesses) and through publications.
Children's Museum News
Author: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Report
Author: Ohio Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Echo of Things
Author: Christopher WrightPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377411
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, photographs are unique objects; they are not reproducible, as they are in Euro-American understandings of the medium. Their status as singular objects contributes to their ability to channel ancestral power, and that ability is a key to understanding the links between photography, memory, and history in Roviana. Filled with the voices of Roviana people, The Echo of Things is both a nuanced study of the lives of photographs in a particular cultural setting and a provocative inquiry into our own understandings of photography.
Museum News
Author: Echoes of the Cordillera
Author: Sandi StrombergPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692970348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An anthology of ekphrastic poems with photographs featuring the Continental Divide from Alaska to Mexico. Thirty nine poets from New Mexico and Texas are featured in this publication with photography by Jim Bones.
Social Bodies
Author: Helen LambertPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455538
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and "ethical" concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed. This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies - that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on comparative insights into how human biological material is treated, it aims to consider how far human bodies and their components are themselves inherently "social." The case studies - ranging from animal-human transformations in Amazonia to forensic reconstruction in post-conflict Serbia and the treatment of Native American specimens in English museums - all underline that, without social relations, there are no bodies but only "human remains." The volume gives us new and striking ethnographic insights into bodies as sociality, as well as a potentially powerful analytical reconsideration of notions of embodiment. It makes a novel contribution, too, to "science and society" debates.
Echoes of the Past
Author: Anita OsbornPublisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 9781426991738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The true story of one woman's escape from war torn Germany, and how she turned abandonment and struggle into a life that is the essence of the American dream.