Museums, the Public and Anthropology: A Study in the Anthropology of Anthropology

by Michael M. Ames

Overview

The book, Tall Islam and Short Muslims, throws light on the principles and message of Islam as reflected in the Holy Quran and the Hadith with practical examples based on small case studies. Another feature of the book is that it tries to bring out significant gaps between what Islam preaches and what Muslims practice today. The intention of the author is to uphold the glory of Islam and present Islam in its right perspective. There is a small exercise in the book to correct the situation and prevail upon community leaders to take up this responsibility. But the question is whether the community leaders of various categories are prepared to take up this responsibility and if so, who are such leaders? Let not further damage be done to the image of Islam. It is high time to act. This book could be of much interest and use to community leaders, social workers and research scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354393051
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	323 KB

About the Author

MICHAEL M. AMES is a well-known Canadian anthropologist who has conducted field work among the native Indians of the Northwest Coast of Canada, for more than two years in Sri Lanka, and for a year in India. Since 1975 he has served as professor and director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, which has gained international attention for its pioneering work in museum techniques and for the quality of its educational programmes. He has published on Buddhism and social change in Sri Lanka, the impact of industrialization on the Indian family system, the arts of acculturation, museum techniques, and the anthropology of anthropology. His current interests include the study of the democratization of cultural organizations and the social sciences in developed and developing societies, for which Museums, The Public and Anthropology is a first report. Dr. Ames is a member of a number of international learned societies, national societies in Canada, India and the United States, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.