Author: National Museum of Man (Canada)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Sharing the Challenge: an Invitation to Comment on New Public Facilities for the National Museum of Man
Author: National Museum of Man (Canada)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Sharing the challenge
Author: Musée national de l'Homme (Canada).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Monograph Collections of the Ukrainian Museum of Canada
Author: Ukrainian Museum of Canada (Saskatoon, Sask.)Publisher: Saskatoon : The Museum
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes
Author: Michael M. AmesPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774804837
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes, Michael Ames examines the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world. The author, an internationally renowned museum director, challenges popular concepts and criticisms of museums and presents an alternative perspective which reflects his study of critical social theory and his experience from many years of museum work. Based on the author’s previous book, Museums, the Public and Anthropology, this edition includes seven new essays which argue that museums and anthropologists must contextualize and critique themselves--that they must analyse and critique the social, political, and economic systems within which they work. In the new chapters, Ames looks at teh influence of consumerism and the market economy on museums and in the production of such phenomena as the world’s fairs and McDonald’s hamburger chains, referring to them as ‘museums of everyday life.’ He also discusses the moral and political ramifications of conflicting attitudes towards Aboriginal art (art or artefact?), censorship (liberating or repressive?), museum exhibits (informative or disinformative?), and postmodernism (a new theory or an old ideology?). The earlier essays outline the development of museums in the Western world, the problems faced by anthropologists in attempting to deal with the often conflicting demands of professional as opposed to public interests, the tendency to both fabricate and stereotype, and the need to establish a reciprocal rather than exploitative relationship between museums/anthropologists and Aboriginal people. Written during the course of the last decade, these essays offer an accessible, often anecdotal, journey through on eprofessional anthropologist’s concerns about, and hopes for, his discipline and its future.
Planning Our Museums
Author: Museum Assistance ProgrammesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museum architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
National Visitor Center
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The National Visitor Center
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Visitors' centers
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Considers S. 3031, to establish a National Visitor Center in D.C.
The Great Good Place
Author: Ray OldenburgPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786752416
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place--opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and GroundsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emigration and immigration law
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.