A group to discuss museums
José Pedro Sousa Dias deposited Que fazer com o património e as coleções científicas coloniais depois do fim do império? in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoIn 1975, at the time of the independence of the last large colonies, the Portuguese government decided to maintain the main public structure of colonial research, as an instrument of cooperation and diplomacy, changing its name to Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. Disconnected from its primitive mission and with a very heavy and co…[Read more]
Karen Schamberger deposited Living in a material world: object biography and transnational lives in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoPersonal and object biographies can be interwoven and reveal much about the transnational connections between Australia and other places. This chapter features two interwoven biographies: Guna Kinne, a Latvian Displaced Person who began making a national dress as a school girl in Latvia and continued to make it as she fled the Soviet army to…[Read more]
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Karen Schamberger deposited ‘Still Children of the Dragon’? A review of three Chinese Australian heritage museums in Victoria in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThe Museum of Chinese Australian History reopened on 29th August 2010 with newly refurbished exhibitions displaying Chinese Australian history and contemporary Chinese Australian identities. This article reviews the new exhibitions in comparison with the Gum San Heritage Centre at Ararat and the Golden Dragon Museum at Bendigo and specifically…[Read more]
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Karen Schamberger deposited Showing Off: Queensland at World Exhibitions 1862 to 1988 by Judith McKay in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoSHOWING OFF: QUEENSLAND AT WORLD EXPOSITIONS 1862 TO 1988 BY JUDITH
MCKAY. ROCKHAMPTON AND SOUTH BRISBANE: CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY
PRESS AND THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, 2004; 128PP, APPENDIX, NOTES,
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX; PAPERBOUND, $29.95 Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoSónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]
Nina Angileri deposited The Tarsus Connection: Striking Coins, Striking Lives in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Ella Riegel Study Collection at Bryn Mawr College houses a group of 88 coins donated by Hetty Goldman, the excavator of Gözlü Kule, Tarsus. The online database Triarte alleges that these coins were excavated at the site, with 37 vaguely titled “Coin of Tarsus (?).” My work combines archival research and numismatics to clarify the prove…[Read more]
SAADIA N. LAWTON started the topic Diversity Topic: Tired of Standing Up! in the discussion
Museums on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoOk, so I know I said I would not start the discussion until Tuesday but I just came across this article in the Arts and culture section of the NYT about new work from the artist Kara Walker and I just could not resist. Please feel free to read and respond at your leisure. I will definitely post a few (I hope) thought provoking comments by or…[Read more]
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SAADIA N. LAWTON started the topic Test in the discussion
Museums on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoTest
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