Description
| Product ID: | 9781842464984 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | ES |
| Title: | Curating Biocultural Collections |
| Authors: | Author: Jan Salick, Mark Nesbitt, Katie Konchar |
| Page Count: | 250 |
| Subjects: | Museology and heritage studies, Museology & heritage studies, Life sciences: general issues, Life sciences: general issues |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book written by interantional experts aims to develop standards of curation across all biocultual collections. and help institutions to properly care for their collections. Written and edited by world-renowned experts.• Specific chapters covering curation of material collections including herbarium, ethnozoological, paleoethnobotanical , xylarium, ethnographic, ethnobiological products, DNA, horticultural, and seed collections• Chapters on the curation of related reference collections including databases, books and archives, photographs and images, linguistic and audio information, and ethnographic information • Further chapters consider the implications of biocultural collections in cultural, indeigenous, ethical and legal contexts • Each chapter has a bibliography citing important references in individual fields• An appendix provides a much more extensive bibliography on references for curating biocultural collections |
| Imprint Name: | Kew Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Royal Botanic Gardens |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-02-01 |
