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Pasts beyond memory : evolution museums colonialism / Tony Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Museum meaningsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xv, 233 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415247462
  • 9780415247467
  • 0415247470
  • 9780415247474
  • 0203647068
  • 9780203647066
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.01 22
LOC classification:
  • AM7 .B385 2004
Contents:
1. Dead circuses : expertise, exhibition, government -- 2. archaeological gaze of the historical sciences -- 3. Reassembling the museum -- 4. connective tissue of civilisation -- 5. Selective memory : racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History -- 6. Evolutionary ground zero : colonialism and the fold of memory -- 7. Words, things and vision : evolution 'at a glance' -- Postscript : slow modernity --
1. Dead circuses : expertise, exhibition, government -- 2. The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences -- 3. Reassembling the museum -- 4. The connective tissue of civilisation -- 5. Selective memory : racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History -- 6. Evolutionary ground zero : colonialism and the fold of memory -- 7. Words, things and vision : evolution 'at a glance' -- Postscript : slow modernity.
Summary: "This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the US, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century. This historical investigation also contributes to current debates, both on relationships between culture and the social, and to the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, with the goal of contributing to the development and management of cultural diversity."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Dead circuses : expertise, exhibition, government -- 2. archaeological gaze of the historical sciences -- 3. Reassembling the museum -- 4. connective tissue of civilisation -- 5. Selective memory : racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History -- 6. Evolutionary ground zero : colonialism and the fold of memory -- 7. Words, things and vision : evolution 'at a glance' -- Postscript : slow modernity --

1. Dead circuses : expertise, exhibition, government -- 2. The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences -- 3. Reassembling the museum -- 4. The connective tissue of civilisation -- 5. Selective memory : racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History -- 6. Evolutionary ground zero : colonialism and the fold of memory -- 7. Words, things and vision : evolution 'at a glance' -- Postscript : slow modernity.

"This important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the US, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century. This historical investigation also contributes to current debates, both on relationships between culture and the social, and to the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, with the goal of contributing to the development and management of cultural diversity."--Publisher description.

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