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Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world

Title
Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world / edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe.
Publication
Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers/The Sociological Review, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Macdonald, Sharon.
  • Fyfe, Gordon.
Description
236 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Sociological review monograph ; 43
Subject
  • Museums > Philosophy
  • Museums > Social aspects
  • Exhibitions
  • Multiculturalism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFD 96-11634
ISBN
0631201513 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
96006174
OCLC
34285002
Title
Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world / edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe.
Imprint
Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers/The Sociological Review, 1996.
Series
Sociological review monograph ; 43
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Macdonald, Sharon.
Fyfe, Gordon.
Research Call Number
JFD 96-11634
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