Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. 1. Introduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Future 1
7. Part I. Anthropological encounters with the post-colonial museum
8. 2. The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umistà Centre, Alert Bay 17
9. 3. Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese Empire 36
10. 4. On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer’s collection of Tiwi artefacts 55
11. Part II. Ethnographic museums and ethnographic museology ‘at home’
12. 5. Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris 75
13. 6. ‘Does anthropology need museums?’ Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years Later 92
14. Part III. Science museums as an ethnographic challenge
15. 7. Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and us 105
16. 8. Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London. Knowing, making and using 117
17. Part IV. Anthropologists as cultural producers
18. 9. Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourse 141
19. 10. Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academy 162
20. 11. The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation 177
21. Part V. Looking ahead
22. 12. Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas 199
23. Bibliography 212
24. Index 231