Ethnological Research, No. 27, 2022.
Book review
The Furniture Collection
Tanja Roženbergar
; Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana
Abstract
The ethnological study written by Zvjezdana Antoš, Ph.D., museum advisor and head of the Furniture Collection at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, boasts several distinctions. It is characterized by a high level of expertise, professionalism, complexity, thoroughness, comparability and problematising the topic in a broader context that includes interdisciplinary ethnological, cultural-anthropological and museological approaches. Zvjezdana Antoš presents the content clearly and expertly with analytically layered argumentation and articulation. The study is the result of the author’s long-term in-depth examination of the Collection and its rich holdings and accompanying material, both on a theoretical and scientific level, as well as on a practical level, primarily based on field research conducted in different parts of Croatia. Antoš has been the Head of the Furniture Collection for 26 years and the study reveals her detailed expert knowledge of the Collection, interpreting it as a living and fluid phenomenon and observing it in the context of the time and social milieu in which it was created. That is precisely why this volume is not only an excellent analytical and professional study of a museum collection, but it is also an excellent example of modern treatment of museum material, which the author interprets in a current and contemporary museological manner.
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Publication date:
30.12.2022.
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