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A Companion to Museum Studies

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Beschreibung

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.

  • Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art...

Beschreibung

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.

  • Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies
  • Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives
  • Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms

Portrait

Sharon Macdonald is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her books include Theorizing Museums (edited with Gordon Fyfe, Blackwell 1996), Reimagining Culture (1997), The Politics of Display (ed., 1998), Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (2002), and Exhibition Experiments (edited with Paul Basu, Blackwell 2007).

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum

01.12.2005
Herausgeber Macdonald Sharon + weitere
Verlag Wiley

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum

01.12.2005
Herausgeber
Verlag Wiley
Seitenzahl

592
Maße (L/B/H)

25,3/17,5/3,3 cm
Gewicht

1288 g
Sprache

Englisch
ISBN

978-1-4051-0839-3
Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: A Companion to Museum Studies

  • List of Illustrations ix

    Notes on Contributors xii

    Acknowledgments xix

    Bibliographical Note xx

    1 Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction 1
    Sharon Macdonald

    Part I Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts 13

    Introduction 14

    2 Cultural Theory and Museum Studies 17
    Rhiannon Mason

    3 Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums 33
    Gordon Fyfe

    4 Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible 50
    Donald Preziosi

    5 Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives 64
    Anthony Alan Shelton

    6 Collecting Practices 81
    Sharon Macdonald

    7 The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums 98
    Susan A. Crane

    Part II Histories, Heritage, Identities 111

    Introduction 112

    8 The Origins of the Public Museum 115
    Jeffrey Abt

    9 World Fairs and Museums 135
    Robert W. Rydell

    10 Making and Remaking National Identities 152
    Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan

    11 Museums and Community 170
    Elizabeth Crooke

    12 Re-staging Histories and Identities 186
    Rosmarie Beier-de Haan

    13 Heritage 198
    Steven Hoelscher

    Part III Architecture, Space, Media 219

    Introduction 220

    14 Museum Architecture: A Brief History 223
    Michaela Giebelhausen

    15 Insight versus Entertainment: Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of Twentieth-century Art Museums 245
    Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani

    16 Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision 263
    Tony Bennett

    17 Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space 282
    Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi

    18 New Media 302
    Michelle Henning

    Part IV Visitors, Learning, Interacting 319

    Introduction 320

    19 Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning 323
    John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, and Marianna Adams

    20 Museum Education 340
    George E. Hein

    21 Interactivity: Thinking Beyond 353
    Andrea Witcomb

    22 Studying Visitors 362
    Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

    Part V Globalization, Profession, Practice 377

    Introduction 378

    23 Globalization: Incorporating the Museum 381
    Mark W. Rectanus

    24 Cultural Economics 398
    Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier

    25 The Museum Profession 415
    Patrick J. Boylan

    26 Museum Ethics 431
    Tristram Besterman

    27 Museum Practice: Legal Issues 442
    Patty Gerstenblith

    28 Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective 457
    Christina Kreps

    Part VI Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures 473

    Introduction 474

    29 Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: "Culture Wars" in Comparative Perspective 477
    Steven C. Dubin

    30 Science Museums and the Culture Wars 494
    Steven Conn

    31 Postmodern Restructurings 509
    Nick Prior

    32 Exposing the Public 525
    Mieke Bal

    33 The Future of the Museum 543
    Charles Saumarez Smith

    Index 555