Looking at, describing and identifying objects
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Meeting an object
- 2 Observation, interpretation and communication
- 3 Life cycle: production and consumption
  - Production
  - Consumption
- 4 Identification
  - Ask an expert
- 5 Life cycle: consumption
  - Consumption: the end
- 6 Life cycle: afterlife
  - Transition from ‘consumption’ to ‘afterlife’
  - Afterlife: ‘museumisation’
- 7 Writing an object biography
  - Towards an object biography
  - Building an object biography
  - Does the netsuke have a meaning?
- Conclusion
- Keep on learning
- Glossary
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements

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