Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world /
Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world /
edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe.
- 236 pages ; 22 cm.
- Sociological review monograph series .
- Sociological review monograph. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing museums: an introduction -- Museums and globalization -- How societies remember the past -- Museums as contested sites of remembrance: the Enola Gay affair -- Into the heart of irony: ethnographic exhibitions and the politics of difference -- Seeing through solidity: a feminist perspective on museums -- Decoding the visitor's gaze: rethinking museum visiting -- The utopics of social ordering: Stonehenge as a museum without walls -- Maintaining boundaries, or 'mainstreaming' black history in a white museum -- A Trojan Horse at the Tate: theorizing the museum as agency and structure -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
0631201513 9780631201519
96006174
Museums--Social aspects
Museum exhibits
Multiculturalism
AM7 / .T48 1996
069.01
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing museums: an introduction -- Museums and globalization -- How societies remember the past -- Museums as contested sites of remembrance: the Enola Gay affair -- Into the heart of irony: ethnographic exhibitions and the politics of difference -- Seeing through solidity: a feminist perspective on museums -- Decoding the visitor's gaze: rethinking museum visiting -- The utopics of social ordering: Stonehenge as a museum without walls -- Maintaining boundaries, or 'mainstreaming' black history in a white museum -- A Trojan Horse at the Tate: theorizing the museum as agency and structure -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
0631201513 9780631201519
96006174
Museums--Social aspects
Museum exhibits
Multiculturalism
AM7 / .T48 1996
069.01