Sharon Macdonald (ed.)

The Politics of Display

Museums, Science, Culture
Herausgeber: Macdonald, Sharon

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Politics of Display" brings together studies of contemporary and historical museum shows and challenges the notion that these exhibitions are politically exempt. For example, what does it mean when the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, is displayed? The contributors to this volume chart the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive and multimedia displays. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine. Contributors include Steven W. Allison-Bunnell, Ken Arnold, Tony Bennett, Thomas F. Gieryn, Penelope Harvey, Sharon Macdonald and Tracy Lang Teslow.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780415153256
• ISBN-10: 0415153255
• Artikelnr.: 22324626

Autorenporträt

Sharon Macdonald is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Remaining Culture (1997), editor of Inside Identities (1993) and co-editor of Theorizing Museums (1996) and The Sociological Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
List of illustrations
Preface - Sharon Macdonald
1. Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibitions: an introduction to the politics of display - Sharon Macdonald
Sheffield University
UK
2. Speaking to the eyes: museums
legibility and the social order - Tony Bennett
Griffith University
Australia
3. The visibility of difference: nineteenth century French anthropological collections - Nelia Dias
University of Lisbon
Portugal
4. Reifying race: science and art in 'Races of Mankind' at the Field Museum of Natural History - Tracy Lang Teslow
University of Chicago
USA
5. Making nature 'real' again: natural history and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian - Steven W. Allison-Bunnell
Discovery Online Channel
6. On interactivity: consumer
citizens and culture - Andrew Barry
Goldsmith's College
London University
UK
7. Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' - Sharon Macdonald
8. Nations on Display: technology and culture in Expo '92 - Penny Harvey
Manchester University
UK
9. Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History - Mary Bouquet
10. Can science museums take history seriously? - Jim Bennett
Museum of the History of Science
Oxford
11. 'Birth and Breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute of Medical History - Ken Arnold
Wellcome Trust
12. Balancing acts: science
Enola Gay and history wars at the Smithsonian - Tom Gieryn
Indiana University
USA
Afterword: From war to debate? - Sharon Macdonald