A Companion to Museum Studies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444357943
• Artikelnr.: 38306579

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"This account captures a fresh, multi-disciplinary approach to thestudy of the development, roles, and significance of museums in oursociety. It expands museum studies and presents a wide range oftheoretical perspectives. The essays examine the complexity of themuseum from cultural, political governance, curatorial, historical,and representational perspectives, Sharon Macdonald is the authorand Professor of Social Anthropology at the University ofManchester." (Neopoprealism Journal, 24 November 2011)

"The collection is not primarily a compendium of the workof ethnographers. The group of scholars Macdonald brought togetherreflects the current makeup of museum studies as aninterdisciplinary endeavor." (Museum Anthropology,April 2009)

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for2007

"Required reading for museum professionals and scholars inmuseum studies, art and cultural history, sociology of art, andanthropology ... The text is rich in information and diverse inperspectives; it both introduces and complicates in an intriguingand necessary way what we 'know' about museums ... Essential."(Choice)

"This is a wonderfully comprehensive collection of essays,offering diverse perspectives, covering all aspects of the museumprofession, and addressing contemporary and historical discourse... It really is the best compendium I've read inyears." (Museums Australia)"No one is better qualified than Sharon Macdonald to createthis definitive companion to museum studies. The field has not onlycome of age but has also burgeoned in all directions. How wise thento capture the vibrancy of its interdisciplinarity by assemblingthe work of a veritable who's who of museum studies. Eachvoice is at once distinct and in dialogue and debate with others. Avital text for the field."
-Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New YorkUniversity

"A Companion to Museum Studies is an indispensableguide to what has come to be called 'the NewMuseology.' This set of papers by some of the mostdistinguished scholars of museums examines museums, displays andexhibits from the perspectives of different disciplines. No oneattempting to study or teach about museums will be able to dowithout this aptly named Companion. It will be both guideand landmark in museum studies for years to come."
-Ivan Karp, Emory University