Handbook for Museums (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

Handbook for Museums is the definitive guide of need-to-know information essential for working in the museum world. Presenting a field-tested guide to best practice, the Handbook is formed around a commitment to professionalism in museum practice. The sections provide information on management, security, conservation and education. Including technical notes and international reading lists too, Handbook for Museusms is an excellent manual for managing and training.

Edson, Gary

Dean, David

Reference

Routledge

Handbook for Museums provides basic information for people working in the museum world. Formed around a commitment to professionalism in museum practice, the sections provide basic information on management, security, conservation and education, and include technical notes and international reading lists. The book is intended as a manual for managing and training, and provides a field-tested guide to `best practice.'

History

Choosing the right museum training course may be one of the most important decisions a person makes in their career. Whether you are already working in a museum or are just beginning training you will need the most comprehensive and up-to-date information. The International Directory of Museum Training provides a list of museum training programmes worldwide with detailed information about each course. Every entry contains information about subjects offered, numbers of students, scholarship opportunities, and contact names and addresses. International Directory of Museum Training is co-published with ICTOP, the training committee of ICOM. It is the successor to the widely recognised Museum Studies International, last published in 1988. This completely new and fully updated volume enhances the qualities of the earlier publication and updates the presentation to make the volume easier to use. This is an essential reference book for all who are hoping to develop a career in museum work or to enhance their professional qualifications.

International Directory of Museum Training: Programs and practices of the museum profession (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

Museum Ethics considers the theoretical and practical elements of the philosophy of conduct in relation to critical contemporary issues and museums.

Museum Ethics

For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. Ancient cave paintings depict figures with animal masks; early Egyptians left images of humans with animal “heads”; and Incan burial chambers contained masks of gold to cover the faces of the dead. Ancient peoples wore masks to survive the elements, succeed in combat, confirm their identity, attract spouses, celebrate important events, and venerate their personal and collective gods. Current literature suggests an early association between masking and pietistic practice. These and many other uses of masking are an important part of the record of human existence, shedding light on the origins of belief systems and spiritualism in the earliest human societies. Placing the mask in the broader context of the evolution of humanity, this book argues that the mask itself should not be assessed in the service of any single function. Instead, the chapters integrate all functions to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon—a means by which individual communities attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as to establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. The book addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and the mask is analyzed as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology. The discussion is augmented by more than 100 illustrations of masks chosen for what they reveal about fundamental emotional and spiritual perspectives, as well as for their different styles, shapes, and designs.

Masks And Masking: Faces Of Tradition And Belief Worldwide

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

McFarland Publishing

The ancient practice of shamanism touches many cultures and spiritual philosophies. This book offers an in-depth look at the beliefs and practices centered on the shaman, a person believed to have powers to heal and communicate with the spirit world. It explores shamanism and its associated myths, artifacts, and legends as a communally endorsed acknowledgment of the supernatural or spirit world that evolved in the Neolithic Period and continues to appeal today. The work is heavily illustrated, featuring more than 90 of the author's drawings of masks, fetishes, carvings and ongon, and 40 rare photographs of shamans, medicine men and women, and healers.

Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Beliefs and Practices

World

For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.

Masks and Masking: Faces of Tradition and Belief Worldwide

Arts & Photography

McFarland

An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of the various theories and practices of transformation, with attention to the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sufism, Tantrism, Taoism and Yoga. The connection between early mystical pursuits and the development of alchemy from ancient China, India, and Egypt through Moorish Spain and into Latin Europe are illuminated, along with the activities of early alchemists. The book, which is heavily illustrated, describes the beliefs, experiments, and secret messages that drew the believers and dreamers of the world together in search of wealth and immortality.

Mysticism and Alchemy through the Ages: The Quest for Transformation

Americas

McFarland Company

With a compilation of information that has never before been available in one source, this exhaustive reference work provides complete published election returns for all popular Congressional elections, including special elections, in the United States--over 36,000 since 1788. For all candidates, party affiliation, number of votes received, and percentage of popular vote are given. A brief history of congressional elections is provided, outlining the variations between states in the early years and detailing the changes caused by the Civil War and the Reconstruction era.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

What Students Need to Know poses a series of questions to help you research graduate training programs and plan a museum career. Topics covered include: choosing between a certificate and a master's degree, finding an internship to suit your needs, and the value of a museum studies degree in the "real world." Written by the chair of the museum studies department at John F. Kennedy University and reviewed by students and faculty at museum studies programs across the country.

What Students Need To Know: Graduate Training in Museum Studies

Business & Money

Schwarzer, Marjorie

Industries

American Alliance of Museums Press

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Handbook for Museums (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

Handbook for Museums (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

International Directory of Museum Training: Programs and practices of the museum profession (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

Museum Ethics

Masks And Masking: Faces Of Tradition And Belief Worldwide

Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Beliefs and Practices

Masks and Masking: Faces of Tradition and Belief Worldwide

Mysticism and Alchemy through the Ages: The Quest for Transformation

Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Study of Beliefs and Practices

What Students Need To Know: Graduate Training in Museum Studies