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Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world / edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sociological review monographPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996Description: 236 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0631201513
  • 9780631201519
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.01 20
LOC classification:
  • AM7 .T48 1996
Contents:
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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 069.01 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A249032B

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.

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