Anthony Alan Shelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 173802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Alan Shelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelton |
| SIGNATURE | SHELTON A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forum or Assembly
Berlin's recently opened Humboldt Forum, housed within the reconstructed Royal Hohenzollern Palace, endured an exceptionally difficult gestation. Beset by political, social, and architectural controversies, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Forum's virtual inauguration on 16 December 2020, followed by its public opening on 20 July 2021, affirmed the tenacity and resolve of its longtime supporters and the consensus between the different govern…
Pre-Columbian South America
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Re-totalizing Culture
With the growth of concern over diminishing cultural diversity, homogenization, and the preservation of tangible patrimony, UNESCO has increasingly assumed a lead position in devising new legislative instruments – programs, proclamations, conventions, and treaties – for the safeguard and regulation of cultural heritage. This cultural policy has been re-directed in the last two decades by a newly emergent and confident cosmopolitan political bloc …
The Public Sphere as Wilderness
This article has the dual purpose of first describing the Musée du quai Branly and secondly critically evaluating its espoused intentions, its reception and its potential disciplinary, political and museological implications. The first part of the essay is approached through the analysis of a selection of newspaper reviews, and a comparison between these and institutionally sanctioned views of the Museum as expressed by some of its principal func…
My Others' Others Other
The ideas in this paper were developed at the Coimbra Conference in 1994 and a summary version presented to the 1996 Annual General Conference of the Museum Ethnographers Group, Manchester. A shorter earlier version was published as The Future of Museum Ethnography, Journal of Museum Ethnography, 9, 1997: 33-48.
Introduction
Dispossessed Histories
The recollection of times past
Huichol cosmology, in general with the intellectual productions of other mesoamerican groups, has been presented as an anarchic hetrogeneity of deities and folk heros whose deeds are executed in an indeterminate and constantly changing landscape. It is argued that sacred narratives, far from being the productions of caprice, structure the relations between divine personages and events by providing a classificatory matrix which partitions the univ…
The Public Sphere as Wilderness
This article has the dual purpose of first describing the Musée du quai Branly and secondly critically evaluating its espoused intentions, its reception and its potential disciplinary, political and museological implications. The first part of the essay is approached through the analysis of a selection of newspaper reviews, and a comparison between these and institutionally sanctioned views of the Museum as expressed by some of its principal func…
Dispossessed Histories
The recollection of times past
Huichol cosmology, in general with the intellectual productions of other mesoamerican groups, has been presented as an anarchic hetrogeneity of deities and folk heros whose deeds are executed in an indeterminate and constantly changing landscape. It is argued that sacred narratives, far from being the productions of caprice, structure the relations between divine personages and events by providing a classificatory matrix which partitions the univ…
The recollection of times past
Huichol cosmology, in general with the intellectual productions of other mesoamerican groups, has been presented as an anarchic hetrogeneity of deities and folk heros whose deeds are executed in an indeterminate and constantly changing landscape. It is argued that sacred narratives, far from being the productions of caprice, structure the relations between divine personages and events by providing a classificatory matrix which partitions the univ…
Introduction
Dispossessed Histories
My Others' Others Other
The ideas in this paper were developed at the Coimbra Conference in 1994 and a summary version presented to the 1996 Annual General Conference of the Museum Ethnographers Group, Manchester. A shorter earlier version was published as The Future of Museum Ethnography, Journal of Museum Ethnography, 9, 1997: 33-48.
The Public Sphere as Wilderness
This article has the dual purpose of first describing the Musée du quai Branly and secondly critically evaluating its espoused intentions, its reception and its potential disciplinary, political and museological implications. The first part of the essay is approached through the analysis of a selection of newspaper reviews, and a comparison between these and institutionally sanctioned views of the Museum as expressed by some of its principal func…
Re-totalizing Culture
With the growth of concern over diminishing cultural diversity, homogenization, and the preservation of tangible patrimony, UNESCO has increasingly assumed a lead position in devising new legislative instruments – programs, proclamations, conventions, and treaties – for the safeguard and regulation of cultural heritage. This cultural policy has been re-directed in the last two decades by a newly emergent and confident cosmopolitan political bloc …
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Pre-Columbian South America
Forum or Assembly
Berlin's recently opened Humboldt Forum, housed within the reconstructed Royal Hohenzollern Palace, endured an exceptionally difficult gestation. Beset by political, social, and architectural controversies, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Forum's virtual inauguration on 16 December 2020, followed by its public opening on 20 July 2021, affirmed the tenacity and resolve of its longtime supporters and the consensus between the different govern…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies (2 works)