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Exploring the history and modern day practice of object-based learning, Shaffer outlines the rationale for endorsing this approach in both formal and informal learning spaces. She argues that museums, as collecting institutions, are learning spaces uniquely positioned to allow children to make meaning about their world through personal connections to cultural artifacts, natural specimens, and works of art. A range of case study descriptive object lessons, inspired by objects in museums as well as from the everyday world, are presented throughout the text as examples of ways in which children can be encouraged to engage with museum collections.

This interdisciplinary group of scholars-anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, educators, lawyers, heritage administrators, policy analysts, and consultants-make the first attempt to define and assess heritage values on a local, national and global level. Chapters range from the theoretical to policy frameworks to case studies of heritage practice, written by scholars from eight countries.

Examining the key components of the museum-community relationship, Authentic Connections looks at both the impact of museums on the cultural and civic lives of local communities, and the impact of local communities on the programs, collections and organisational culture of museums. Advocating an accessible and inclusive approach to museum management, Kadoyama focuses in particular on the role of museum leadership in fostering community relationships. The result offers insights into how relationships between communities and museums can be forged in practice, and how community engagement strategies can be developed, implimented and evaluated successfully.

This book considers modern museum collection stewardship and argues that the museum field risks being constrained by rigid ways of thinking about objects. Exploring issues such as `quality over quantity¿, emotional attachment, dispassionate cataloging, and cognitive biases in curatorship, the book aims to inform and innovate collection practices.

"First published in French 2014: Howard S. Becker, Paris: Editions L'Harmattan."

In this wise but witty Western-themed graphic textbook, Shane the Lone Ethnographer attains a strong grounding in the theory, practice, and methodologies in the ethnography of childhood, in turn developing an understanding of its special nature.

In accessible, informed, and often humorous prose, the author examines contemporary medical, legal, and bioethical debates on death and dying, to argue that modern America is not a death-denying culture; on the contrary, we have placed issues regarding end-of-life at the very center of public conversations about what it means to be human.

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory, anthropologist Brian Moeran argues that fashion magazines are able to cast a spell over their readers by using practices and rituals found in age-old magical and religious rites.

Traditional qualitative interviews typically involve a single subject; interviews of dyads rarely appear outside marketing research and family studies. Experienced qualitative researcher David Morgan's brief guide to dyadic interviewing provides readers with a road map to expand this technique to many other settings.

Includes a ground-breaking manifesto that calls for the establishment of a more inclusive, visitor-centred paradigm based on the shared experience of human habitation; draws inspiration from film, theatre, public art, and urban design to transform historic house museums; and rovides a how-to guide for making historic house museums sustainable.

Intimacy at Work shows how portable, digital media allow people to bring their private lives into the workplace, thus softening and humanizing what is often a hard, isolating business world.

Addresses the crucial issue often overlooked by researchers: How do you ensure that the interview you so carefully collected will be preserved and available in the future? This book looks at the various steps that take place after the interview - transcribing, cataloging, preserving, archiving, and making your study accessible to others.

This brief, practical guide shows you how to identify the right journal or book publisher for your work and guides you through the publications process, from the abstract through writing, production, and marketing.

The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures.