The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum's own past. Thurner argues that the ghosts of the museum's past evoked in these exhibits maps museography's future.
The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum's own past. Thurner argues that the ghosts of the museum's past evoked in these exhibits maps museography's future.
Mark Thurner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, History and Humanities at FLACSO Ecuador. He has held research and teaching positions at the University of London, the University of Florida, the University of Turin, the City College of New York, the Catholic University of Peru, the University of San Marcos, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, and the Colegio de Mexico. His research has been further supported by the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright-Hays Programme, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust.
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0 Antechamber 1 Eden 2 Ark and Temple 3 New Atlantis 4 Old New World 5 New Old World 6 New Acropolis 7 Babel
