Academic Anthropology and the Museum: Back to the Future

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Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Future Mary Bouquet PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POST-COLONIAL MUSEUM Chapter 1. The photological apparatus and the desiring machine: Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umista Centre, Alert Bay Barbara Saunders Chapter 2. Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire Nuno Porto Chapter 3. On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artifacts Eric Venbrux PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUMS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEOLOGY 'AT HOME' Chapter 4. Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musee National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris Martine Segalen Chapter 5. 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years Later Nelia Dias PART III: SCIENCE MUSEUMS AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE Chapter 6. Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us Roberto J. Gonzalez, Laura Nader and C. Jay Ou Chapter 7. Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London: Knowing, making and using Sharon Macdonald PART IV: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AS CULTURAL PRODUCERS Chapter 8. Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourse Anthony Shelton Chapter 9. Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academy Jeanne Cannizzo Chapter 10. The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation Mary Bouquet PART V: LOOKING AHEAD Chapter 11. Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas Michael M. Ames Notes on contributors Bibliography Index