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
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 thin
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 our
This first of four volumes on the European tradition of collecting examines its history and practice in ancient northern Europe (around 1600 BCE), ancient and classical Greece and imperial Rome, and t
Designed to fill a need for core reference material to those doing research on collecting and collections, Pearce (pro-vice-chancellor, U. of Leicester, UK) and her colleagues have assembled and edite
