Table of Contents: Interpreting objects and collections /

Other Authors:	Pearce, Susan M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Series:	Leicester readers in museum studies
Subjects:	Collectors and collecting. Collectors and collecting > History. > Europe Museums > Social aspects. Collections. Musées > Aspect social. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Museum Administration & Museology. REFERENCE > General. TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. Materiële cultuur. Verzamelingen. Kunstbeschouwing. Colecao museologica/museografica. Objet (esthétique) Archéologie > Musées. Art > Musées. Ethnologie > Musées. Collections ethnologiques. Muséologie. Aufsatzsammlung. Interpretation. Europe.
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Table of Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Museum objects; The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings; Things ain't what they used to be; Objects as meaning; or narrating the past; Death's head, cherub, urn and willow; Behavioural interaction with objects; A view of functionalism; Culture as a system with subsystems; Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view; A view from the bridge; Ivory for the sea woman: the symbolic attributes of a prehistoric technology; Interpreting material culture.