The Politics of Display (eBook, ePUB)

Museums, Science, Culture
Redaktion: Macdonald, Sharon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies and science studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136878787
• Artikelnr.: 49364582

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