Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage

Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage
Author: ICOM
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317197410

This volume provides an unparalleled exploration of ethics and museum practice, considering the controversies and debates which surround key issues such as provenance, ownership, cultural identity, environmental sustainability and social engagement. Using a variety of case studies which reflect the internal realities and daily activities of museums as they address these issues, from exhibition content and museum research to education, accountability and new technologies, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage enables a greater understanding of the role of museums as complex and multifaceted institutions of cultural production, identity-formation and heritage preservation. Benefitting from ICOM’s unique position in the museum world, this collection brings a global range of academics and professionals together to examine museums ethics from multiple perspectives. Providing a more complete picture of the diverse activities now carried out by museums, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage will appeal to practitioners, academics and students alike.

Terra 2008

Terra 2008
Author: Leslie Rainer
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1606060430

Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.

Heritage Regimes and the State

Heritage Regimes and the State
Author: Bendix, Regina
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3863951220

What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Author: Volker Scheid
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2002-06-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780822328728

DIVThis ethnography of contemporary Chinese medicine that covers both Chinese medical education and practice./div

Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963

Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963
Author: Kim Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134283601

Using original sources, this significant text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored for the first time, making a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine.

Hokusai

Hokusai
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher: Parkstone International
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783107715

Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. Considered during his life as a living Ukiyo-e master, Hokusai fascinates us with the variety and the significance of his work, which spanned almost ninety years and is presented here in all its breadth and diversity.

Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM.

Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM.
Author: Jacques Forest
Publisher: French National Museum Natural History
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1981
Genre: Science
ISBN:

"Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, a continuation of Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, is a series dedicated to the inventory and description of the deep-sea fauna of the world, with special emphasis on the most extensive, yet remote and least explored, region -- the Indo-West Pacific. The comprehensive series of marine expeditions undertaken by the French Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) continue to collect many new, strange and sometimes colourful crustaceans."--