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Curating America journeys through storyscapes of the American past / Richard Rabinowitz ; with illustrations by Richard T. Hoyen.
| Author/creator | Rabinowitz, Richard |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] |
| Description | 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation -- Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere -- Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster -- Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it? -- Postscript -- A reader's reflections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016009980 |
| ISBN | 9781469629506 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |