What in the World. A Museum's Subjective Biography

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Jorge Pinto Books, 2010

1934978280 / 9781934978283

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Indiana Jones and Night at the Museum hardly hold a candle to the true stories in Pablo Helguera's museum 'biography.' Helguera is a natural storyteller. He shares the same propensity for insight, wit, and curiosity as the curators he writes about-the anthropologists, archeologists, and native folks who found themselves anchored to a museum, over long careers becoming specimens themselves, no longer completely in sync with the worlds they came from or the foreign worlds they came to know. Mining the history of a museum, Helguera asks questions of these long-gone curators. The answers, embedded in the archives, are as engaging and enjoyable as any exhibition on view. -Fred Wilson, artist An eccentric American professor imports an entire Buddhist temple from Asia. The first Pacific Northwest Indian anthropologist dies mysteriously on a river shore in Alaska. A former Massachusetts farm boy leads the first American archaeological expedition to the Middle East, where he finds thousands of ancient artifacts but loses his mind because of it. A German businessman uncovers ancient clay dinosaur figurines in a small village in Mexico and ignites a decades-long controversy that is still pits scientists against Creationists, today. What in the World tells these stories and more. It is an unauthorized biography of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, an illustrious institution that has played a key role in the history of American archaeology. Taking an investigative approach to the life of the University Museum, Pablo Helguera has unearthed little-known or forgotten episodes from its past, spinning intricate threads that reflect on the role of individuals in forming the culture of museums and their collections.…

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Titel
What in the World. A Museum's Subjective Biography
Autor
Pablo Helguera
Verlag
Jorge Pinto Books
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1934978280
ISBN-13
9781934978283

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