New Horizons For Asian Museums And Museology

Author : Naoko Sonoda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811008863

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New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology by Naoko Sonoda Pdf

This book presents up-to-date information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand.Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities—for example, exhibition and sharing information, database construction, access to and conservation of museum collections, relationships between museums and local communities, and international cooperation in the field of cultural heritage. Readers are expected to include museum professionals and museology students.Throughout the course of this book, the reader will understand that a museum is not only a place for collecting, representing, and preserving cultural heritage but also plays a fundamental role in community development. This book is highly recommended to readers who seek a worldwide vision of museum studies.The peer-reviewed chapters in this volume are written versions of the lectures delivered by selected speakers at the international symposium "New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology" held in February 2015 at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

Author : Naoko Sonoda,Kyōnosuke Hirai,Jarunee Incherdchai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UCBK:C113993501

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Asian Museums and Museology 2014 by Naoko Sonoda,Kyōnosuke Hirai,Jarunee Incherdchai Pdf

Author : Reshmi Banerjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000839982

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Reflections on Myanmar by Reshmi Banerjee Pdf

Myanmar is known for its engaging history, rich cultural heritage, and diverse ethnic communities. Its tumultuous political past has been discussed by academics and policy makers for decades; however, the land of the Shwedagon cannot only be defined by conflict and contestation. Myanmar is complex and multi-layered with innumerable issues shaping its identity and manifold interpretations creating its distinctiveness. A deeper comprehension of its past glory with thoughtful deliberation on its socio-economic challenges helps to understand the country better. This book fills this gap by focusing on four broad themes––reminiscence, restoration, re-evaluation, and resurrection. It studies interconnected issues ranging from nostalgia and belonging to Myanmar’s contribution to art and heritage (through its museums, cinema, folk traditions); from the problems of landlessness, resource dispossession, and climate change to the experience of marginalized groups. The author weaves these themes into a common narrative of discovering Myanmar through a holistic lens. The book aims to explore the country through its history, culture, communities, and challenges. A unique contribution, the book highlights the myriad facets of Myanmar by contemplating on its inherent strengths and visible weaknesses. It would be indispensable for scholars and researchers of Southeast Asian studies, Asian studies, area studies, Myanmar studies, political studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

Author : Milan Jan Půček,František Ochrana,Michal Plaček
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030820282

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Museum Management by Milan Jan Půček,František Ochrana,Michal Plaček Pdf

This book centers on museum management with particular focus on risk management. It sees the museum as a modern institution that, in addition to its classical heritage function (collections management), also provides an educational function and implements this education through experience (the experiential function of the museum). It represents a combination of academic excellence and experience from real managers from museums and other public institutions. Additional topics such as strategic and operational museum management and museum research management are discussed and case studies from daily management practice are included.

Author : Kim Browne,Murray Raff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031105685

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International Law of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Kim Browne,Murray Raff Pdf

This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law – namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law – to address the international legal protection of historically significant wrecks, with particular focus on the environmental hazards they may pose. The confluence of Heritage Law and the Law of the Sea with International Environmental Law represents an important development in international governance strategies for the twenty-first century, in particular those legal and administrative regimes that concern the world’s oceans and underwater cultural heritage protection. Importantly, connections between international legal regimes, such as the 1982 Law of the Sea, and institutions like the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and United Nations Education Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), can play a crucial part in governance strategies that involve the regulation of marine pollution and historic shipwrecks.

Author : Adam Simpson,Nicholas Farrelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003802518

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Myanmar by Adam Simpson,Nicholas Farrelly Pdf

This new edition of Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society provides a sophisticated yet accessible overview of the key political, economic and social challenges facing contemporary Myanmar and explains the complex historical and ethnic dynamics that have shaped the country. Thoroughly revised, the book analyses the context and tragic consequences of the military coup in February 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic. With clear and incisive contributions from the world’s leading Myanmar scholars, this book assesses the policies and political reforms that have provoked contestation in Myanmar’s recent history and driven both economic and social change. In this context, questions of economic ownership and control and the distribution of natural resources are shown to be deeply informed by long-standing fractures among ethnic and civil-military relations. The chapters analyse the key issues that constrain or expedite societal development in Myanmar and place recent events of national and international significance in the context of its complex history and social relations. The book provides detailed analysis of the coup, which overturned a decade of political and economic reforms and threw the country into chaos. It explains the drivers for the coup, how it has impacted on the country and the future prospects for accountability and justice. Filling a gap in the market, this research textbook and primer will be of interest to upper undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars of Southeast Asian politics, economics and society and to journalists and professionals working within governments, companies and other organisations.

Author : Paige Williams
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780316382502

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The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams Pdf

In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.

Author : Hani Hayajneh
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912527

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Cultural Heritage by Hani Hayajneh Pdf

Human heritage is an endless mine of knowledge, skills, ethos and accomplishments, which visualize and examine the power of human creativity and innovation throughout the history. The contributions cast an insight into the human psyche to perceive its Weltanschauung, and its way of thinking and making artefacts associated with knowledge, existence and identity in the context of other existing systems in the world. They demonstrate the diversity of topics as well as the state-of-the art of interdisciplinary approaches that participants of the Humboldt-Kolleg use in their research on cultural heritage, and confirm, once again, that the strengths of the Alexander von Humboldt Network should be celebrated and honoured. The present volume invites us to seek more novel research approaches that aim towards an understanding of the complex nature of human inheritance.

Author : Saloni Mathur,Kavita Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351556248

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No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying by Saloni Mathur,Kavita Singh Pdf

This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period.

Author : 克己·田村
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4906962289

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Asian Museums and Museology 2013 by 克己·田村 Pdf

Author : Mirjam Brusius,Kavita Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351659420

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Museum Storage and Meaning by Mirjam Brusius,Kavita Singh Pdf

Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can also include unseen archives, study rooms, and libraries which are inaccessible to the public. This collection of essays focuses on this domain, an area that has hitherto received little attention. Divided into four sections, the book critically examines the physical space of museum storage areas, the fluctuating historical fortunes of exhibits, the growing phenomenon of publicly visible storage, and the politics of objects deemed worthy of collection but unsuitable for display. In doing so, it explores issues including the relationship between storage and canonization, the politics of collecting, the use of museum storage as a form of censorship, the architectural character of storage space, and the economic and epistemic value of museum objects. Essay contributions come from a broad combination of museum directors, curators, archaeologists, historians, and other academics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Museums
ISBN : IND:30000132419627

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Directory of Asian Museums by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan L. Huntington,John C. Huntington
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788120836174

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The Art of Ancient India by Susan L. Huntington,John C. Huntington Pdf

To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author's aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: –Not since Coomaraswamyês History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness.” Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art _ from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan north to the tropical south, and from the earliest extant writing through the most modern scholarship on the subject. This dynamic survey-generously complemented with 775 illustrations, including 48 in full color and numerous architectural ground plans, and detailed maps and fine drawings, and further enhanced by its guide to Sanskrit, copious notes, extensive bibliography, and glossary of South Asian art terms-is the most comprehensive and most fully illustrated study of South Asian art available. The works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all encompassing view of the art. An outstanding portrayal of ancient Indiaês highest intellectual and technical achievements, this volume is written for many audiences: scholars, for whom it provides an up-to-date background against which to examine their own areas of study; teachers and students of college level, for whom it supplies a complete summary of and a resource for their own deeper investigations into Indic art; and curious readers, for whom it gives a broad-based introduction to this fascinating area of world art.

Author : Unesco-ICOM Documentation Centre,Unesco
Publisher : Unesco, [19--]
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Directories
ISBN : UOM:39015016640578

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Directory of Asian Museums 1985 by Unesco-ICOM Documentation Centre,Unesco Pdf

Author : Grace Morley,Gayatri Nath Pant
Publisher : Delhi : Agam
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Museum techniques
ISBN : UOM:39015028196197

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Museums and Museology by Grace Morley,Gayatri Nath Pant Pdf