Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817-2017 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0472130277 ISBN 13: 9780472130276

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge explores the museums, libraries, and special collections of the University of Michigan on its bicentennial. Since its inception, U-M has collected and preserved objects: biological and geological specimens; ethnographic and archaeological artifacts; photographs and artistic works; encyclopedia, textbooks, rare books, and documents; and many other items. These vast collections and libraries testify to an ambitious vision of the research university as a place where knowledge is accumulated, shared, and disseminated through teaching, exhibition, and publication. Today, two hundred years after the university’s founding, museums, libraries, and archives continue to be an important part of U-M, which maintains more than twenty distinct museums, libraries, and collections. Viewed from a historic perspective, they provide a window through which we can explore the transformation of the academy, its public role, and the development of scholarly disciplines over the last two centuries. Even as they speak to important facets of Michigan’s history, many of these collections also remain essential to academic research, knowledge production, and object-based pedagogy. Moreover, the university’s exhibitions and displays attract hundreds of thousands of visitors per year from the campus, regional, and global communities. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of these world-renowned collections, this book will appeal to readers interested in the history of museums and collections, the formation of academic disciplines, and of course the University of Michigan.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Kerstin Barndt is Associate Professor of German at the University of Michigan.

Carla M. Sinopoli is Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Asian Archeology and Ethnology in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, and Director of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Michigan.
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0472130277
• ISBN 13: 9780472130276
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 366
• Redattore: Barndt Kerstin, Sinopoli Carla M
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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