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| Publisher | Left Coast Press Inc |
| ISBN 13 | 9781611329162 |
| Book Description | Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement considers changes that have been taking place in museum anthropology as it has been responding to pressures to be more socially relevant, useful, and accountable to diverse communities. Based on the author's own research and applied work over the past 30 years, the book gives examples of the wide-ranging work being carried out today in museum anthropology as both an academic, scholarly field and variety of applied, public anthropology. While it examines major trends that characterize our current "age of engagement," the book also critically examines the public role of museums and anthropology in colonial and postcolonial contexts, namely in the US, the Netherlands, and Indonesia. Throughout the book, Kreps questions what purposes and interests museums and anthropology serve in these different times and places. Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement is a valuable resource for readers interested in an historical and comparative study of museums and anthropology, and the forms engagement has taken. It should be especially useful to students and instructors looking for a text that provides in one volume a history of museum anthropology and methods for doing critical, reflexive museum ethnography and collaborative work. |
| Editorial Review | "This volume brings a comprehensive perspective to the relationship between anthropology as practiced in museums and other sites of engaged anthropology. Christina Kreps makes a compelling argument for considering museum anthropology as applied work, in the best sense of the word. She highlights innovative practices that anthropologists and museum professionals are using currently to bring social and cultural issues to audiences not used to seeing them addressed in such distinctive ways. By putting current efforts at engagement into broader comparative and temporal context, she has constructed a text that will be useful to students in museum studies, anthropology theory and material culture studies." Alaka Wali, Ph.D.; Curator of North American Anthropology; Field Museum, Chicago; Fellow, The Neubauer Collegium at University of Chicago "For many years, Christina Kreps has been at the forefront of developing an engaged museum anthropology. In this essential volume, Kreps takes her on-the-ground experiences across the globe and crafts them into sophisticated yet straightforward theoretical arguments about the past and future of museums. If you want to understand the intersections of museum work and applied anthropology, the rights of communities, or the possibilities of collaboration and the dangers of entrenched colonialism, then you'll find this book vital and necessary reading." Chip Colwell, Ph.D.; Senior Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science |
| About the Author | Christina Kreps is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the cross-cultural and comparative study of museums and museological practices. She has carried out ethnographic research on museums and participated in museum development and training programs in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. At the University of Denver she is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Museum and Heritage Studies Program. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Christina Kreps |
| Publication Date | 08 Nov 2019 |
| Number of Pages | 278 |
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