A companion to museum studies / edited by Sharon Macdonald.
Published / Created:
Malden, MA ; Blackwell Pub., 2006.Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Physical Description:
xx, 570 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005033629.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
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 --
Subject Terms:
Museums -- Philosophy. | Museums -- Social aspects. | Museum techniques.