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

Other author Macdonald, Sharon.
Other author Fyfe, Gordon.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996.
Description236 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSociological review monograph
Sociological review monograph. ^A512623
Contents Theorizing museums : an introduction / Sharon Macdonald -- Museums and globalization / Martin Prösler -- How societies remember the past / John Urry -- Museums as contested sites of remembrance : the Enola Gay affair / Vera Zolberg -- Into the heart of irony : ethnographic exhibitions and the politics of difference / Henrietta Riegel -- Seeing through solidity : a feminist perspective on museums / Gaby Porter -- Decoding the visitor's gaze : rethinking museum visiting / Gordon Fyfe and Max Ross -- The utopics of social ordering : Stonehenge as a museum without walls / Kevin Hetherington -- Maintaining boundaries, or 'mainstreaming' black history in a white museum / Eric Gable -- A Trojan horse at the Tate : theorizing the museum as agency and structure / Gordon Fyfe.
Local noteLittle-291570--305130044826-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96006174
ISBN0631201513 (pb : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks AM7 .T48 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold