A companion to museum studies / edited by Sharon Macdonald
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| Subjects: | Museums--Philosophy Museums--Social aspects Museum techniques |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
| Series: | Blackwell companions in cultural studies 12 |
| LC Classification: | A, AM |
| Additional Authors: | Macdonald, Sharon |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2005033629 ISBN: 9781405108393 (hbk. alk. paper) ISBN: 1405108398 (hbk. alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Expanding museum studies : an introduction / Sharon Macdonald -- Cultural theory and museum studies / Rhiannon Mason -- Sociology and the social aspects of museums / Gordon Fyfe -- Art history and museology : rendering the visible legible / Donald Preziosi -- Museums and anthropologies : practices and narratives / Anthony Alan Shelton -- Collecting practices / Sharon Macdonald -- The conundrum of ephemerality : time, memory, and museums / Susan A. Crane -- The origins of the public museum / Jeffrey Abt -- World fairs and museums / Robert W. Rydell -- Making and remaking national identities / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Museums and community / Elizabeth Crooke -- Re-staging histories and identities / Rosmarie Beier-de Haan -- Heritage / Steven Hoelscher -- Museum architecture : a brief history / Michaela Giebelhausen -- Insight versus entertainment : untimely meditations on the architecture of twentieth-century art museums / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani -- Contents: Civic seeing : museums and the organization of vision / Tony Bennett -- Space syntax : the language of museum space / Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi -- New media / Michelle Henning -- Living in a learning society : museums and free-choice learning / John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, Marianna Adams -- Museum education / George E. Hein -- Interactivity : thinking beyond / Andrea Witcomb -- Studying visitors / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- Globalization : incorporating the museum / Mark W. Rectanus -- Cultural economics / Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier -- The museum profession / Patrick J. Boylan -- Museum ethics / Tristram Besterman -- Museum practice : legal issues / Patty Gerstenblith -- Non-western models of museums and curation in cross-cultural perspective / Christina Kreps -- Incivilities in civil( -ized) places : culture wars in comparative perspective / Steven C. Dubin -- Science museums and the culture wars / Steven Conn -- Postmodern restructurings / Nick Prior -- Exposing the public / Mieke Bal -- The future of the museum / Charles Saumarez Smith |
| Physical Description: | xx, 570 p. : ill. ; 26 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 62393049 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781405108393 1405108398 |