Mary Bouquet

Biographic Data

ID3640486
NAMEMary Bouquet
GIVEN NAMESMary
FAMILY NAMEBouquet
SIGNATUREBOUQUET M
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS137
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • Ethnographic Museums, Future of

    Open AccessMary BouquetOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2022

    Ethnographic museums and collections have moved, since the 1990s, from a relatively peripheral position in anthropology to becoming a locus for understanding how culture and history are made, and for social engagement. Ethnographic collections are housed in a variety of institutions ranging from universities, to municipalities, to national and universal museums. The repositioning of both collections and museums depends on research that is increas…

  • Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology

    Mary BouquetCHAPTERRelative Values2020

  • Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, museums, and liberal government

    Open AccessMary BouquetARTICLEJournal of the History of…2020

    Collecting, Ordering, Governing deals with anthropology, museums and colonial government in the period between the 1880s–1890s and the 1930s–1940s. The object of inquiry is the connection between the activities named in the title and sites of collection, calculation and governmental agencies. The authors examine how these concepts illuminate relations between anthropology and practices of social governance in the first half of the twentieth centu…

  • Museum Experiments

    Open AccessMary BouquetOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    Museums, as enduring institutions, are continually transforming due to their practices of acquisition, curatorship, conservation, research, exhibition, and digitalization, and joint projects involving their shared heritage with a range of stakeholders. These dynamic and varied activities ensure that museums are the focus of intense scholarly and cross‐disciplinary interest. Since the 1980s, museums' expanding and varied activities have become inc…

  • Ethnographic Spectacle

    Open AccessMary BouquetOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018References: 4

    While the term “ethnographic” refers to the scientific description of the culture of a society by someone who has lived in it, “spectacle” denotes a public event or show that is exciting to watch and experience. The contradictions that arise when these terms are combined create the unease that is at the heart of ethnographic spectacle. The European practice of creating ethnographic spectacle goes back many centuries to when it was the prerogative…

  • Time, Space, Velocity, and Scale: Moving Images and Regional Evocation

    Mary BouquetARTICLEAnthrovision2018References: 2

    The uses of film across the museum spectrum date back to the early 20th century. Film was and is used in art and science museums variously to enliven, spectacularize and dramatize exhibitions. The ways film is used in ethnographic museums today raise questions about whether and how historical practices associated with the medium may percolate through into the present. This article examines a particular use of film dating from the first decade of …

  • The Pitt Rivers Museum. A World Within

    Mary BouquetARTICLEJournal of the History of…2016

    This book belongs to that distinctive yet slippery genre that might be called the museum publication. Not quite a catalogue, it is a selection that – while certainly providing such basic identification of individual objects as ‘height’ or ‘length’, name of the people or country of origin, name of the donor, identification number – tells a story that is aimed at the visitor. The author, Michael O’Hanlon, Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum ( prm ) …

  • Genealogy in Anthropology

    Open AccessMary BouquetCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Exhibitions

    Open AccessAparna Kumar, Mary Bouquet et al.ARTICLEMuseum Worlds2015

    EXHIBITION REVIEW ESSAYS Unsettling the National in South Asia: My East is Your West, Venice Biennale, and After Midnight, Queens Museum, New York Nonstop Modernity: Renovating the Rijksmuseum A Storehouse of Unimagined Treasures: York Art Gallery and the Centre of Ceramic Art, York St Mary’s EXHIBITION REVIEWS The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation, British Museum, London Photography: A Victorian Sensat…

  • Recreating First Contact: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture

    Mary BouquetARTICLEJournal of the History of…2015

    This volume brings together a dozen or so studies that afford vivid insight into the diversity and complexity of expeditionary collecting between the First and Second World Wars. The chapters are structured more or less chronologically and explore an impressive range of expeditions and collecting practices in diverse locations: Africa, the Americas, the Soviet Union, Iran, New Guinea and Australia. The expeditions variously collected zoological, …

  • Heritage

    Open AccessMary BouquetARTICLEMuseum Worlds2013

    This article examines the changing relationship between museums and heritage using a number of Dutch cases. It argues that if heritage was once defined as being museological in character, this order of precedence is under revision as museums themselves are recursively transformed by heritage dynamics. Such dynamics include the display of renovation work-in-progress; the enhancement of historical collections by relocation to prominent new sites an…

  • Exhibiting knowledge: The trees of Dubois, Haeckel, Jesse and Rivers at the Pithecanthropus centennial exhibition

    Mary BouquetCHAPTERShifting Contexts2010

  • Making culture materialise

    Open AccessMary BouquetARTICLESocial Anthropology2007

  • Science, magic and religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic

    Mary Bouquet, Nuno PortoBOOKScience, Magic and Religion2005

    BABY AND THE MUMMIES Chapter 1. Memorialising the Future: the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester Penelope Harvey Chapter 2. Unwrapping Mummies and Telling their Stories: Egyptian Mummies in Museum Rhetoric Anna Wieczorkiewicz PART II: SITE SPECIFICS: THE CASE OF TERVUREN Chapter 3. Congo-Vision Barbara Saunders Chapter 4. The Scourge of Chief Kansabala: the Ritual Life of Two Congolese Masterpieces at the Royal Museum for Central Africa…

  • Academic Anthropology and the Museum: Back to the Future

    Open AccessBarbara Lawson, Mary BouquetARTICLEAnthropologica2002Cited by: 20

  • Making Kinship, with an Old Reproductive Technology

    Open AccessMary BouquetCHAPTERRelative Values2001

  • The Family Photographic Condition

    Open AccessMary BouquetARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2000Cited by: 4References: 6

  • Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice

    Mary BouquetARTICLEEthnos2000Cited by: 4References: 16

    Despite the growing interest in museums and exhibitions in anthropology, there is still a sharp sense of difference (certainly in parts of Europe) between universities and museums in their practices of making and transmitting knowledge. This paper argues thatanthropological theory, in the general sense of translation, can be productively engaged in the making of exhibitions. Although scripting an exhibition goes beyond writing, various kinds of p…

  • Making culture materialise

    Open AccessMary BouquetARTICLESocial Anthropology1999

  • Antropologica at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

    Mary BouquetARTICLEAnthropology Today1999

  • Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

    Mary BouquetREVIEWJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1999

    While the cultural history of the British Empire has recently attracted much interest, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of its visualization. Yet the Empire was pictured across a wide spectrum of imagery, from paintings to postcards, maps to documents. Focusing on the role of photography, this wide-ranging book explores the aesthetics of empire. The development of photography in the Victorian era coincided with the dr…

  • Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums

    Mary BouquetREVIEWJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998

    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community. Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants. Civilizing Rituals is ideal reading for students of …

  • On the making of "Man-ape Ape-man" Pithecanthropus in Het Pesthuis, Leiden

    Open AccessMary BouquetARTICLEAntropologia Portuguesa1997

    If we live in a world increasingly dominated by science, knowledge of that world is disseminated by means that are akin to showbusiness. World famous scientists are increasingly media-personalities. Scientific curiosity, inquiry and the desire to know more are tempered by the imperative to put what is known on display: to present, to dress and to wrap things up.

  • On the Mall: Presenting Maroon Tradition-Bearers at the 1992 Festival of American Folklife

    Mary Bouquet, Richard Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1997Cited by: 5

  • Museums and the Making of `Ourselves: The Role of Objects in National Identity

    Mary Bouquet, Flora S Kaplan et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996Cited by: 2