Download or read book Masterpieces from the National Museum of Ethnology written by Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Netherlands) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book One Hundred Masterpieces of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology written by Ignacio Bernal and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Indian Art written by Pieter Hovens and published by Zkf Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Indian Art: Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands showcases 114 oustanding examples of Native art and heritage from the Canadian subarctic forests to the American Southwest preserved in Dutch museums. Many of these rare material documents collected between the seventeenth and the twenty-first century have never been published before. They are here stunningly presented as individual works of art and placed into their cultural and historical contexts by forty-two leading American, Canadian, and European experts who weave together the historical narrative of each object's acquisition with current Native and scholarly interpretations of their use and meaning. In his introductory essay Pieter Hovens provides a detailed account of the history of Dutch interests in North American Indian cultures, from the seventeenth-century colonial experience in New Netherland through the collecting activities of public institutions and private connoisseurs to academic scholarship and social engagement. All of these interests have contributed to the wealth and range of objects featured here as well as to the public perception of Native Americans in the Netherlands. This book offers for the first time an overview of all institutional collections of Native North American arts and cultures in a single European country. It is the privilege of the Dutch museums to share these heritage collections with the widest audience possible.
Download or read book Anthropological Resources written by Lee S. Dutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special knowledge of the resources described. Contributors include James R. Glenn (National Anthropological Archives), Elizabeth Edwards and Veronica Lawrence (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), Francisco Demetrio, S.J. (Museum and Archives, Xavier University, Philippines) and many others. The guide covers selected documentation in social and cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and folklore. Some major area studies collections (such as the Asia Collections, Cornell University Libraries, and the Melanesian Archive at the University of California, San Diego) are also represented. Web URLs have been cited when available and personal, and ethnic name indexes are provided.
Download or read book CATALOGUE OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL written by Walter 1859-1935 Hough and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book In Side Out on Site in written by Gert Staal and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice written by Cara Krmpotich and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a common misconception that collections management in museums is a set of rote procedures or technical practices that follow universal standards of best practice. This volume recognises collections management as a political, critical and social project, involving considerable intellectual labour that often goes unacknowledged within institutions and in the fields of museum and heritage studies. Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice brings into focus the knowledges, value systems, ethics and workplace pragmatics that are foundational for this work. Rather than engaging solely with cultural modifications, such as Indigenous care practices, the book presents local knowledge of place and material which is relevant to how collections are managed and cared for worldwide. Through discussion of varied collection types, management activities and professional roles, contributors develop a contextualised reflexive practice for how core collections management standards are conceptualised, negotiated and enacted. Chapters span national museums in Brazil and Uganda to community-led heritage work in Malaysia and Canada; they explore complexities of numbering, digitisation and description alongside the realities of climate change, global pandemics and natural disasters. The book offers a new definition of collections management, travelling from what is done to care for collections, to what is done to care for collections and their users. Rather than ‘use’ being an end goal, it emerges as a starting point to rethink collections work.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Ethnological Exhibit from the United States National Museum written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Indonesian Bronzes written by Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archiv 72 written by Weltmuseum Wien Friends and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to the Tibetan Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology Leiden written by P H Pott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1951 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City written by Felipe Solis and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the museum's founding, this volume explores both the museum's collection and its role as a national cultural institution. Included among the more than 450 illustrations, many of them new photographs taken especially for this book, are pre-Columbian masterpieces such as Mixtec gold pendants worn to evoke the souls of fallen warriors, two-headed clay figurines associated with the Mesoamerican concept of the duality of life, utilitarian vessels carved from obsidian in the form of indigenous animals, and intricate jade masks placed in burial sites. An array of curators and scholars contribute essays on the Mexica (Aztec), Maya, and Toltec Nahua peoples; clues about life in the ancient Toltec metropolis of Tula, and in nearby Teotihuacan; the contemporary ethnography of Mexico; and the historical background of the site, construction, and architecture of the museum itself. This publication is both an introduction to and a complete documentation of one of the world's great museums."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Asmat Art written by Dirk Smidt and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea This book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown. Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation of Asmat artists, and these were carved throughout the region. It is in the design and construction of the shields that the variations in style region can most clearly be seen. Figure sculptures, of varying styles, are also well represented here, and a limited number of the huge ceremonial carvings, such as bisj poles and basu suangkus, have also been included. The cultural context in which these items play their part is described in detail in the introductory chapters. But it is not the intention of this book to be an ethnography. The focus is on the art pieces themselves.
Download or read book Sensitive Pasts written by Carla van Boxtel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage, as an area of research and learning, often deals with difficult historical questions, due to the strong emotions and political commitments that are often at stake. In this, it poses particular challenges for teachers, museum educators and the publics they serve. Guided by a shared focus on these “sensitive pasts,” the contributors to this volume draw on new theoretical and empirical research to provide valuable insights into heritage pedagogy. Together they demonstrate the potential of heritage as a historical-educational domain that transcends myopic patriotism, parochialism and simplistic relativism, helping to enhance critical and sophisticated historical thinking.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Ethnological Exhibit from the United States National Museum written by Walter Hough and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Ethnological Exhibit From the United States National Museum: From the Report of the Madrid Commission, 1892 Specimens of arrows from North America - This collection comprises the kinds used by the aborigines of North America. By beginning the examination of the specimens contained in this case on the left, they may be studied in their order from Labrador (including West Green land) on the east and Alaska on the west, across the continent, to Mexico, above the Aztec territory. Plate armor. - Composed of three layers of ivory plates 1 inch wide and 6 inches long. Every plate contains 6 holes, through which passes a thong made of deer hide, which fastens them together. These plates are arranged like scales, in order to afford better protection in war against the enemy's missiles. The lower part contains 43 plates, and the middle 38. The upper row is composed of 2 sections One of 10 plates, protecting the breast, and the other of 8 plates, protecting the upper part of the back. The armor is kept in place by leather straps. This armor greatly resembles that formerly used in Japan, which fact has given rise to the supposition that the primitive inhabitants or aborigines of Alaska had some relations or connection with the Japanese. Length of the armor when opened, 3 feet 8 inches. Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 1892. 153491. Collected by H. R. Thornton. Plate armor. - A fragment consisting of 9 iron plates, resembling those of the J apa nese suits of armor, fastened together by three thongs. This specimen was found in a marsh on Cape Prince of Wales, near the ivory armor (n 0. 153491) before described. Each plate measures 42 inches in length by 11} inches in width. 1892. 153492. Collected by H. R. Thornton. Armor. - Composed of 32 pieces of cedar and other kinds of wood, fastened together by a fine cord of sinew and other material. The breastplate and backpiece of the armor are separate. A section of 8 small pieces protects the throat, and another similiar set of 7 pieces protects the nape of the neck. The armor is fastened on the right side by a wide leather strap, and on the left by a strap and loop. A button placed on the front of the collar probably served to hang the quiver. Length, 21% inches; Width, 20 inches. Sitka, Alaska. 9243. Collected by Dr. A. H. Hoff, U. S. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
