Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996.

Description:

236 pages ; 22 cm

Série(s):

Sociological review monograph series ; [no. 43]

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Résumé:

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.

ISBN:

0631201513 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780631201519 (pb ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Museums Philosophy.
Museums Social aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Multiculturalism.
Museums.
Museums Exhibitions.
Musées Philosophie.
Musées Aspect social.
Musées Expositions.
Multiculturalisme.
Objets exposés.
Musées.
multiculturalism.
museums (institutions)
Museología
Museumkunde.
Museum exhibits Exhibitions.

Classification/genre:

Exhibition
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Vedettes secondaires:

Macdonald, Sharon.
Fyfe, Gordon.
Sociological review monograph ; no.43]

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 110720
Cote: ID AM7.T49; ID:96-B1784
Statut: Disponible