Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world

Title
  1. Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world / edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Macdonald, Sharon.
  2. Fyfe, Gordon.
Description
  1. 236 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. This volume brings together international contributions to show how social and cultural theory can provide new insights to the debate about museums. Analytical perspectives on the museum are drawn from the anthropology and sociology of globalization, time, space and consumption.
Series statement
  1. Sociological review monograph series ; [no. 43]
Uniform title
  1. Sociological review monograph ; no.43]
Subject
  1. Museums > Philosophy
  2. Museums > Social aspects
  3. Museum exhibits
  4. Multiculturalism
  5. Museums
  6. Museums
  7. multiculturalism
  8. museums (institutions)
  9. Museología
  10. Multiculturalism
  11. Museum exhibits
  12. Museums > Philosophy
  13. Museums > Social aspects
  14. Museumkunde
  15. Museum exhibits > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  1. Exhibition
  2. exhibition catalogs.
  3. Exhibition catalogs.
  4. Catalogues d'exposition.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.