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  • Fashioning Horror

    Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

    From Jack the Ripper to Frankenstein, Halloween customs to Alexander McQueen collections, Fashioning Horror examines how terror is fashioned visually, symbolically, and materially through fashion and costume, in literature, film, and real life.With a series of case studies that range from sensationalist cinema and Slasher films to true crime and nineteenth-century literature, the volume ... Leer más

    $672 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    Genes and Heredity for Beginners: A Beginner's Guide to the Traits Passed Down Through Families

    de Julia Petrov ...
    Narrado por Julia Petrov ...

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    2 hora 1 minutos

    Unlock the biological secrets of your ancestry and decode the everyday genetics that shape your unique traits. Whether you are mapping out family health patterns during a quiet commute or simply curious about where your dimples come from, this gentle, story-driven guide transforms complex science into highly accessible concepts.Journey from the visible features you share with relatives into the ... Leer más

    $173 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

    Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and ... Leer más

    $1,210 MXN

  • The Thing about Museums

    Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation

    The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book deals with how ... Leer más

    $1,020 MXN

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  • The Birth of the Museum

    History, Theory, Politics

    de Tony Bennett ...
    Series series Culture: Policy and Politics
    In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between ... Leer más

    $1,020 MXN

  • Doing Museology Differently

    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of ... Leer más

    $1,349 MXN

  • On Collecting

    An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition

    de Susan Pearce ...
    Series series Collecting Cultures
    On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on certain objects and how does this add meaning to our lives? Do men and women collect differently? How ... Leer más

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  • Utopic Impulses

    Contemporary Ceramics Practice

    Edición de Ruth Chambers, Amy Gogarty ...
    Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice brings together ten essays and twenty artist projects to explore ceramics as a socially responsible practice. By framing particular ceramics practices as 'utopic impulses,' this anthology envisions new and stimulating conceptions of how studio ceramics contribute to the social and political fabric of their time. The ten essays by artists and ... Leer más

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  • Museum Revolutions

    How museums change and are changed

    This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and ... Leer más

    $1,349 MXN

  • Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

    Edición de Jenny Hughes, Helen Nicholson ...
    As the twenty-first century moves towards its third decade, applied theatre is being shaped by contemporary economic and environmental concerns and is contributing to new conceptual paradigms that influence the ways in which socially engaged art is produced and understood. This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions ... Leer más

    $496 MXN

  • Museums, Objects, and Collections

    A Cultural Study

    de Susan Pearce ...
    This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as souvenirs, as fetishes, and as systematic assemblages. She considers how museum professionals set policies of collection management; acquire, study, and ... Leer más

    $348 MXN

  • Interpreting Objects and Collections

    Edición de Susan Pearce ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which discuss objects variously ... Leer más

    $1,262 MXN