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“dr christopher morton”

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  • Photographs, Museums, Collections

    Between Art and Information

    Edited by Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Christopher Morton ...
    The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The African Photographic Archive

    Research and Curatorial Strategies

    Edited by Dr Christopher Morton, Professor Darren Newbury ...
    African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating photographic collections have come to light.This volume explores the complex theoretical and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Libya

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  • Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

    Edited by Judith Rugg, Michèle Sedgwick ...
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  • The Engaging Museum

    Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

    by Graham Black ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards.This holistic ... Read more

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  • Disciples of All Nations:Pillars of World Christianity

    Pillars of World Christianity

    by Lamin O. Sanneh ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in World Christianity
    Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity. In this eye-opening book, Lamin Sanneh examines the roots of this "post-Western awakening" and the unparalleled richness and diversity, as well as the tension and conflict, it has ... Read more

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  • Museums and Community

    Ideas, Issues and Challenges

    by Elizabeth Crooke ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies, Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum.Focusing strongly on areas such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia and North America to highlight the complex issues faced by museums and local groups, Crooke examines one of the museum's ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum

    Exchanging Views of Empire

    by Kathleen Davidson ...
    Series series Science and the Arts since 1750
    The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship ... Read more

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  • Public Archaeology

    Edited by Nick Merriman ...
    Scrutinizing, in detail, the relationship between archaeology, heritage and the public, this much-needed volume explores public interest and participation in archaeology as a subject worthy of academic attention in its own right.Examining case studies from throughout the world; from North America, Britain, Egypt and Brazil to East Africa, China and beyond, Nick Merriman focuses on two key areas: ... Read more

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  • Where Fire Speaks

    A Visit With the Himba

    by Sandra Shields ...
    Series series Parallax
    Sandra Shields and David Campion are a married couple who collaborate on numerous narrative/photographic projects, including the book Where Fire Speaks, which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2003. They live outside of Vancouver, BC. Sandra Shields and David Campion are a married couple who collaborate on numerous narrative/photographic projects, including the book Where Fire Speaks, ... Read more

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  • Whose Culture?

    The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

    Edited by James Cuno ...
    The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and ... Read more

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