Interpreting objects and collections / 
edited by Susan M. Pearce. 
 - xii, 343 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
 - Leicester readers in museum studies .
 - Leicester readers in museum studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index. 
<br/><br/> Series editor's preface --  List of plates --  List of figures --  Preface --  Acknowledgements --  Collecting Processes --  Themes and Parameters --  Archaic themes of the Long Term --  Mediterranean themes --  Early modernist collectors --  Classic modernist collecting --  Collecting in a post-modernist world --  Collecting culture --  Collecting ourselves --  Controlling collecting --  Engendering collections --  Collecting relationships --  Collecting in time --  Collecting in space --  Material identities --  Political parameters --  The politics of value --  Collecting the Other, Within and Without --  The Other Beyond and Before --  Collecting the shape of things to come --  Relating collective values --  Vested interests --  Collecting in the European Tradition --  Bibliography --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  22.  23. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415112893 9780415112895 0415112885 9780415112888 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>94011658 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Collectors and collecting<br/>Museums--Social aspects
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AM231.  / I58 1994 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>069.4