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New Ways of Thinking About Cultural Property: A Critical Appraisal of the Antiquities Trade Debates [PDF]
, 2007 In debates over the trade in archaeological objects or antiquities, on one end are those who believe that everyone has a shared interest in and claim to the common heritage of humanity, and thus support a vibrant and legal trade in cultural materials. On
CHANUT, Odile, Paché, Gilles
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Exhibiting fandom: A museological perspective
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Fandom and the collecting of objects are interwoven phenomena. The insights of museum studies may be brought to bear on the study of fan objects to provide a better understanding of fan collections and fan collecting.
Dorus Hoebink +2 more
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Transformations of Exhibitions in War-Affected Ukraine: 2024 Perspectives on Art-Driven Inclusion and Socialization [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne DedičstvoThis article explores the transformation of exhibition practices in Ukraine amidst the ongoing conflict, focusing on the period up to 2024. It examines the extensive damage to cultural monuments and museum collections caused by Russian aggression and ...
Yulia Ivashko, Aneta Pawłowska
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The status of Australian mammals in 1922 - collections and field notes of museum collector Charles Hoy [PDF]
Australian Zoologist, 2001 Charles Hoy, a collector for the US Museum of Natural History, spent three years in Australia (1919-1922) collecting at more than a dozen locations around Australia. He collected over one thousand specimens of mammals of more than 100 species. This paper collates the species collected by location and provides detailed quotes from his field notes and ...
Short, J., Calaby, J.H.
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Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura MaterialThe Brazilian anthropologist of German origin, Curt Nimuendajú, is considered a central figure in the history of Brazilian anthropology. His biography is marked by multiple roles: a brilliant ethnographer, an indefatigable recorder of indigenous ...
Peter Schröder
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Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong from 1949 to 1997: Collectors, Museums and the Art Market [PDF]
, 2021 This thesis is a study of Chinese art collecting in Hong Kong during the second half of the 20th century. Through reconstructing the biographies of four representative collectors, who also held other roles as art dealer, adviser, scholar or museum donor, it demonstrates the diversity of collecting practices which thrived in this British colony and ...
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21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the VisualBy 1956, the Philadelphia Museum of Art had acquired a major collection of Indian sculpture from Stella Kramrisch and appointed her as the Curator for Indian art.
Brinda Kumar
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Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes [PDF]
, 2008 Chinese embroideries have featured in British domestic interiors since at least the seventeenth century. However, Western imperial interests in China during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century created a particular set of meanings around ...
Baker Muriel +7 more
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Geo&BioThe article deals with the prehistory of the formation of modern zoological collections housed in museums of Kyiv with a significant mammalogical component. A large part of the oldest collections appeared as a result of hunting practices and have all the
Igor Zagorodniuk
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Manufactures, archaeology and bygones: making a sense of place in civic museums, 1850-1914 [PDF]
, 2013 This article considers the extent and nature of the ways in which civic museums created a sense of place in the period 1850-1914. The local has been shown to be constructed in visual culture, such as architecture, paintings and engravings, as well as in ...
Hill, Kate
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