Monique Scott

Rethinking Evolution in the Museum

Envisioning African Origins

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Produktbeschreibung

Up from Africa explores the way natural history museum audiences imagine their evolutionary heritage and how meaning is constructed as a result of a dynamic interplay between museum iconography, and the powerful preconceptions they bring with them. Through the use quantitative and qualitative methods, involving detailed visitor studies, Scott provides rare insights into visitor perceptions at four world-class museums and makes a distinctive argument that audiences of human origins exhibitions 'make ancestral meaning' through a profoundly complex convergence of personal, political, intellectual, emotional and cultural interpretative strategies. Up from Africa gives a fuller understanding about how museums visitors interpret the exhibitions, the methodologies used to uncover visitor perceptions, and how to improve upon the relationship between museums and communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 175mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415405409
• ISBN-10: 0415405408
• Artikelnr.: 22515499

Autorenporträt

Monique Scott is a physical anthropologist with a specialty in museum education. She currently serves as an evolutionary content specialist for the American Museum of Natural History's education department.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Up From Africa 2. Evolving into the Familiar 3. Revisiting
Victorian Progress 4. Envisioning Our Evolutionary Beginnings 5.
Envisioning Our Evolutionary Destinies 6. The Black Counter-Narrative 7.
'Out of Africa' in Kenya Postscript: the big picture