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The politics of display : museums, science, culture / edited by Sharon Macdonald.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415153263
  • 9780415153263
  • 0415153255
  • 9780415153256
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.5
LOC classification:
  • AM151. P65 1998
Contents:
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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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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