The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum.
Автор: Marianne Kinkel Название: Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman ISBN: 0252036247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252036248 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5663.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology display called The Races of Mankind. Marianne Kinkel’s cultural biography of the long-running exhibition measures how Hoffman’s ninety-one bronze and stone sculptures impacted perceptions of race in twentieth-century visual culture. Kinkel looks at how Hoffman's collaborations with curators and anthropologists transformed the commission from a traditional physical anthropology display into a fine art exhibit. She also tracks appearances of statuettes of the works in New York and Paris exhibitions and looks at how publishers used images of the sculptures to illustrate atlases, maps, and encyclopedias. The volume concludes with the dismantling of the exhibit in 1969 and the Field Museum’s redeployment of some of the sculptures in new educational settings.
A fascinating cultural history, Races of Mankind examines how we continually re-negotiate the veracity of race through collaborative processes involved in the production, display, and circulation of visual representations.
Описание: This book discusses the ongoing and future decline in the human species. The circumstances of the decline are generally due to well-meant motives to improve the human condition. They will provide short term benefits but will result in major long term difficulties and an overall decline of the human species. Topics discussed include: The Rise of Man, Genetic Disasters, Birth Defects, Natural Changes in Human Genes, Genetic Selection for the Least Fittest, Disease/War Driven Genetic Decline, Hybrid Human-Animal Species, Social Implications of Hybrids, Religious Implications of Hybrids, Super-Human Species - Obsoleting Man, Overpopulation Constraints, Restraints on Population Growth, Achieving a Standard of Living Comparable to the United States, Population Reduction, Pollution Effects, Pollution Today and Projected for Tomorrow, Genetic Effects of Pollution, Reducing Pollution, Is Pollution Inevitable?, Global Warming, Global Temperatures over the Millenniums prior to 10,000 BC, Global Warming Today and Tomorrow, Desertification, World Deserts Today, Growth of World Deserts, Arid Earth?, Reversing Desertification, Poverty, Population and Morality, Poverty Today in Underdeveloped Countries, Poverty in Developed Countries, Political Impact of Poverty, Impact of Poverty on Population Growth, Impact of Poverty on Public Morality, Rising Violence, Violence in the Recent Past, Current Levels of Violence, Social and Political Impact of Violence, Epidemics, Past Epidemics, Epidemics Today, Growth in Epidemic Potential with Increasing Population, Epidemics as a Method of -Culling- the Human Species, Wars, War's Effect on Population, War in the Future, Nuclear Wars are Likely, World Leadership Failure, Reduction of the Population to -Cattle-, Towards a Superior Human Species?, Natural Genetic Improvements, Engineered Genetic Improvements, Cybernetic Hybrids of, and Alternatives to, Man, and What of Those Left Behind? A provocative view of Man and his future
Автор: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem Sullivan, Robert Merriman, John, Ph.d. (yale University) Название: Story of mankind ISBN: 0871408651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780871408655 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Crookshank Jennings Macfi Название: Today and Tomorrow Vol 10 Science & Medicine ISBN: 041546305X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415463058 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9798.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Hutchinson, Charles Название: Arid Lands ISBN: 0367014459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367014452 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book compiles the papers presented at the International Research and Development Conference on arid land use, held in 1985. It is a substantial reference work covering all aspects of desert science and addresses the problems of and opportunities presented by the arid lands of the world.
Автор: Hutchinson, Charles Название: Arid Lands ISBN: 0367164329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367164324 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book represents the efforts of scientists and other individuals who, through their various disciplines, are addressing the problems of and opportunities presented by the arid lands of the world.
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