Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world /
edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe.
- 236 pages ; 22 cm.
- Sociological review monograph series .
- Sociological review monograph. .
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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Museums--Social aspects Museum exhibits Multiculturalism