Museums and the future of collecting / edited by Simon J. Knell.

Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Dept. of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What future collecting? / Simon Knell -- Collections and collecting / Susan Pearce -- Museums without collections : museum philosophy in West Africa / Malcolm McLeod -- The future of collecting: lessons from the past / Richard Dunn -- The Ashmolean Museum : a case study of eighteenth century collecting / Patricia Kell -- The cartographies of collecting / Rebecca Duclos -- From curio to cultural document / Barbara Lawson -- Contemporary popular collecting / Paul Martin -- Collecting from the era of memory, myth, and delusion / Gaynor Kavanagh -- Collecting in time of war / Zarka Vujic -- The politics of museum collecting in the 'old' and the 'new' South Africa / Graham Dominy -- Folk devils in our midst? : collecting from 'deviant' groups / Nicola Clayton -- All legal and ethical? : museums and the international market in fossils / John Martin -- What is in a 'national' museum? : the challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland / Michael Taylor -- Who is steering the ship? : museums and archaeological fieldwork / Janet Owen -- Collecting : reclaiming the art, systematising the technique / Linda Young -- Samdok : tools to make the world visible / Anna Steen -- Professionalising collecting / Barbro Bursell -- Developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums / María García, Carmen Chinea, José Fariña -- Towards a national collection strategy : reviewing existing holdings / Jean-Marc Gagnon, Gerald Fitzgerald -- Deaccessioning as a collections management tool / Patricia Ainslie -- Collecting live performance / James Fowler -- Redefining collecting / Tomislav Sola.