Museum Origins
Museum Origins

Author: Hugh H Genoways

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1315423995

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With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art in the late 19th century came the debates over the role of these museum in society. This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions showing how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an essential resource.

Sociable Knowledge
Sociable Knowledge

Author: Elizabeth Yale

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0812247817

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Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.

Nature and Antiquities
Nature and Antiquities

Author: Philip L. Kohl

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0816531129

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Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology.