TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macdonald,Sharon
TI  - The politics of display: museums, science, culture 
SN  - 0415153263
AV  - AM151. P65 1998
U1  - 069.5 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Science museums
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Political correctness
N1  - 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
ER  -