The politics of display : museums, science, culture / edited by Sharon Macdonald.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415153263
- 9780415153263
- 0415153255
- 9780415153256
- 069.5
- AM151. P65 1998
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069.5 KLE Exhibits : planning and design / | 069.5 MER Beyond the glass case : the past, the heritage, and the public / | 069.5 OBJ Objects of knowledge / | 069.5 POL The politics of display : museums, science, culture / | 069.501 UND Understanding heritage and memory / | 069.509595 ABU Museums, history, and culture in Malaysia / | 069.51 MUS Museums and the future of collecting / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1. Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: an introduction to the politics of display -- 2. Speaking to the eyes: museums, legibility and the social order -- 3. The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological collections -- 4. Reifying race: science and art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 5. Making nature 'real' again: natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s -- 6. On interactivity: consumers, citizens and culture -- 7. Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' -- 8. Nations on display: technology and culture in Expo '92 -- 9. Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History -- 10. Can science museums take history seriously? -- 11. Birth and Breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine -- 12. Balancing acts: science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian -- Afterword: from war to debate? -- Index.
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