Theorizing museums: representing identity and diversity in a changing world

by Macdonald, Sharon

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Title Statements

Full title :Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world / ed. by Sharon Macdonald ...

Summary

This volume brings together original contributions from international scholars to show how social and cultural theory can bring new insight to debate about museums. Analytical perspectives on the museum are drawn from the anthropology and sociology of globalisation, time space and consumption, as well as from feminism, psychoanalysis, experimental ethnography and literary theory. These perspectives are brought to bear on questions of museum's changing role and position in the representation of the nation-state, of community, and of gender, class and ethnicity. The examples in this book are drawn from different kinds of museums around the world, and include significant controversial and experimental exhibitions; the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian; feminist exhibitions in Scandinavia; the National Museum of Sri Lanka; Victorian art at the Tate; the representation of race at Colonial Williamsburg and of colonialism and identity in Canada.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.
Edition:Reprint

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:236 Seiten : : Illustrationen.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0631201513, 9780631201519
oclc:ocn254805714
LC Classification:AM7
Dewey Decimal:069.01

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Kulturanthropologie ; SWD-ID: 41339034 Kulturtheorie multiculturalism Musées -- Aspect social Musées -- Philosophie Museologi Museum Museum ; SWD-ID: 40407950 Museum exhibits Museums Museums -- Philosophy Museums -- Social aspects Museumskunde Objets exposés Soziologie ; SWD-ID: 40776244