The Social Museum in the Caribbean
Grassroots Heritage Initiatives and Community Engagement
Csilla E. Ariese | 2018
A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts…
Fighting Fibres
Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections
Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence and Alison Clark | 2018
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the…
Style and Meaning
Essays on the anthropology of art
Anthony Forge (edited by Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) | 2017
Anthropology’s engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, ‘decorative art’, and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal…
Treasures in Trusted Hands
Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects
Jos van Beurden | 2017
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries…
Indian Detours
Tourism in Native North America
Edited by Pieter Hovens & Mette van der Hooft | 2016
With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. Nowhere is the history of the tourist encounter between Native peoples…
Fernweh
Crossing borders and connecting people in archaeological heritage management. Essays in honour of prof. Willem J.H. Willems
Edited by Monique H. van den Dries, Sjoerd J. van der Linde & Amy Strecker | 2015
‘Fernweh’ is a collection of essays on archaeological heritage management issues dedicated to Professor dr. Willem J.H. Willems. Willem Willems (1950-2014) was one of the most prominent and influential Dutch archaeologists. He directed three national…
Managing our past into the future
Archaeological heritage management in the Dutch Caribbean
Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Jay B. Haviser | 2015
Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting…
The Social Museum in the Caribbean
Grassroots Heritage Initiatives and Community Engagement
Csilla E. Ariese | 2018
A mosaic is the only image which can do justice to museums in the Caribbean. They are as diverse and plentiful as the many communities which form the cores of their organizations and the hearts…
Fighting Fibres
Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections
Edited by Julie Adams, Polly Bence and Alison Clark | 2018
This book brings together artists, curators, researchers and conservators to consider the significance of coconut fibre armour from the islands of Kiribati. Taking as its focus the armour found in museum collections, it investigates the…
Style and Meaning
Essays on the anthropology of art
Anthony Forge (edited by Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) | 2017
Anthropology’s engagement with art has a complex and uneven history. While material culture, ‘decorative art’, and art styles were of major significance for founding figures such as Alfred Haddon and Franz Boas, art became marginal…
Treasures in Trusted Hands
Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects
Jos van Beurden | 2017
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries…
Indian Detours
Tourism in Native North America
Edited by Pieter Hovens & Mette van der Hooft | 2016
With tourism becoming the largest single sector of the global economy it cannot but impact traditional societies in many ways, both detrimental and beneficial. Nowhere is the history of the tourist encounter between Native peoples…
Fernweh
Crossing borders and connecting people in archaeological heritage management. Essays in honour of prof. Willem J.H. Willems
Edited by Monique H. van den Dries, Sjoerd J. van der Linde & Amy Strecker | 2015
‘Fernweh’ is a collection of essays on archaeological heritage management issues dedicated to Professor dr. Willem J.H. Willems. Willem Willems (1950-2014) was one of the most prominent and influential Dutch archaeologists. He directed three national…
Managing our past into the future
Archaeological heritage management in the Dutch Caribbean
Edited by Corinne L. Hofman & Jay B. Haviser | 2015
Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting…
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