ETHNOGRAPHIC ART: PARADIGMS, PERCEPTIONS, INTERPRETATIONS
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Authors
Scarlett, Victoria Theresa
Issue Date
1983
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
Museums currently describe their responsibilities in terms of collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting natural and cultural objects. Among these responsibilities interpretation, as we know it, has grown in importance during the last hundred years. Yet only vague reference and study have been made of the philosophical origins and intellectual methodology of interpretation within the museum. As a communicative act which reveals the meaning and, significance of objects through the museum’s curatorial, educational, and display activities, interpretation deserves a closer examination.