Curating biocultural collections : a handbook /

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Imprint:	Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnological museums and collections. Natural history museums -- Collection management. Museums -- Curatorship. Botanical gardens -- Curatorship. Ethnobiology -- Methodology. Ethnobotany -- Methodology. Museum techniques. Material culture -- Collection and preservation. Biological specimens -- Collection and preservation. Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation. Antiquities -- Collection and preservation. Museums. Natural History. Anthropology, Cultural. Antiquities -- Collection and preservation. Biological specimens -- Collection and preservation. Botanical gardens -- Curatorship. Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation. Ethnobotany -- Methodology. Ethnological museums and collections. Material culture -- Collection and preservation. Museum techniques. Museums -- Curatorship. Natural history museums -- Collection management. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11349400

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Other authors / contributors:	Salick, Jan, 1949- editor. Konchar, Katie, editor. Nesbitt, Mark, 1961- editor. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, issuing body. Missouri Botanical Garden, issuing body. Biocultural Collections : Establishing Curation Standards (Workshop) (2011 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
ISBN:	9781842465097 1842465090 9781842464984 1842464981
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 22, 2016).
Summary:	"Biocultural collections document the remarkable richness and diversity of human engagements with nature. This handbook, written and edited by experts from around the world, is the first practical resource for those involved in the use and curation of such collections. All aspects of the field are covered, from the curation of specimens, artefacts and documents to their associated reference materials and metadata. Throughout there is a strong emphasis on the needs of collection users, ethical considerations and engagement with source communities. This book will be of interest to readers in a wide range of fields including ethnobiology, anthropology, archaeology, agriculture, botany, geography, history, zoology and museum curation."--Back cover.
Awards:	Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2016
Other form:	Print version: Curating biocultural collections. Richmond, Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014 1842464981 9781842464984

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Biocultural collections : needs, ethics and goals / Jan Salick, Katie Konchar & Mark Nesbitt ; Box: ethical standards in ethnobiology / Ethnobiology Working Group ; Featured biocultural collections (Missouri Botanical Garden, biocultural collection / Katie Konchar & Jan Salick ; National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, economic botany collection / Peter Wyse Jackson & Matthew Jebb ; National Museum of Natural History, Paris, ethnobiology collections / Serge Bahuchet ; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, economic botany collection / Mark Nesbit ; Smithsonian collections / Michele Austin-Dennehy & Adrienne Kaeppler)
Practical curation of biocultural collections
materials. Curating ethnographic specimens / Jan Timbrook ; Box: Curating ethnographic textiles ; Box: Labelling : what not to do ; Herbarium curation of biocultural plant collections and vouchers / Jan Salick & James Solomon ; Box: Herbarium collections ; Curating ethnobiological products / Michael J. Balick & Katherine Herrera ; Box: The Henry Hurd Rusby collection of economic botany ; Curating palaeoethnobotanical specimens and botanical reference collections / Deborah M. Pearsall ; Curating ethnozoological and zooarchaeological collections / Terrance Martin ; Curating DNA specimens / David M. Spooner & Holly Ruess ; Curating seeds and other genetic resources for ethnobiology / David Dierig, Harvey Blackburn, David Ellis & Mark Nesbitt ; Box: United States National Plant Germplasm System ; Box: Storage protocols for seeds at National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP) ; Box: Project MGU : The Useful Plants Project at the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) / Tiziana Ulian ; Curating xylaria / Alex C. Wiedenhoeft ; Living plant collections and ethnobotany in botanic gardens / Andrew Wyatt ; Box: Living biocultural collections
Practical curation of biocultural collections
reference materials and metadata. Database standards for biocultural collections / Alyse Kuhlman & Jan Salick ; Curating ethnographic information for biocultural collections / Serge Bahuchet ; Box: Biocultural collections of French Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris ; Box: Recovering cultural context : a basketry shield from the Amazon / Cristina Rico Liria Box: Process is important : Cuban cigars / Peter Wyse Jackson ; Box: Process is important : mastic / Peter Wyse Jackson ; Box: Draft structure for the ethnobiological data base in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris / Flora Pennec, Simon Juraver, Marina Quiñe & Serge Bahuchet ; Cataloguing and curation of ethnobiological books and archives / Judith Warnement ; Box: Botanical and economic botany library collections of Harvard ; Box: Conservation at the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden ; Box: Storage and display at the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. Box ; Palmer Collection at Harvard ; Curating ethnobiological photographs / Will McClatchey & Kim Bridges ; Box: A specific example of archival storage ; Linguistic and audio-video collections in ethnobiology / K. David Harrison & Karim Sariahmed ; Legal aspects of biocultural collections / Charles R. McManis & John S. Pelletier
Contexts and perspectives on biocultural collections. Indigenous perceptions of biocultural collections / Jane Mt. Pleasant ; Native American perspectives on biocultural collections and cultural restoration / Linda S. Bishop ; Multicultural perspectives on biocultural collections / Neil R. Crouch, Henrik Balslev, Kamal Bawa, Robert Bye, Sangay Dema, Edelmira Linares, Pei Shengji, Armand Randrianasolo & John Rashford ; Box: Repatriation of the Zimbabwe birds / Neil R. Crouch ; Historical perspectives on Western ethnobotanical collections / Caroline Cornish & Mark Nesbitt ; Box: The ethnobotany collection
Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro / Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel
Broader impacts of biocultural collections. Research using biocultural collections / David M. Spooner ; Use of herbarium specimens in ethnobotany / Mark Nesbitt ; Biocultural collections for conservation / Robbie Hart, Wayne Law & Peter Wyse Jackson ; Using biocultural collections for education / Catrina T. Adams & Gayle J. Fritz ; Box: Sacred seeds : a global network of living useful plants collections / Ashley Glenn ; Biocultural collections : the view from an art museum / Matthew H. Robb ; Biocultural collections : exhibition concept, planning, and design / Tom Klobe & Michael B. Thomas.

Curating biocultural collections : a handbook /

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