Format:
1 online resource (468 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203326350
Content:
Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past couple of decades. The volume is divided into four parts: presents overviews and useful starting points for critical reflection focuses more specifically on selected issues of significance, looking particularly at the museum's role and responsibilities in the postmodern and postcolonial world concentrates on issues related to cultural heritage and tourism dedicated to public participation in heritage, museum and gallery processes and activities. The book provides an ideal starting point for those coming to the study of museums and galleries for the first time.
Content:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Issues in heritage, museums and galleries -- PART 1 Heritage/museums/galleries -- 2 The debate on heritage reviewed -- 3 The uses and abuses of heritage -- 4 Ideas of museums in the 1990s -- 5 The informed muse -- 6 A blurring of the boundaries -- 7 The art museum as ritual -- 8 Visiting with suspicion -- Suggested further reading for Part 1 -- PART 2 Highlighting key issues -- 9 The reburial issue in the twenty-first century -- 10 Illicit antiquities -- 11 Heritage management in southern Africa -- 12 The search for legitimacy -- 13 Multiculturalism and museums -- 14 Museums and the re-shaping of memory -- 15 Tolerance, trust and the meaning of 'sensation' -- 16 Museums, galleries and heritage -- 17 Presenting the past -- 18 Understanding the social impact of museums, galleries and heritage through the concept of capital -- PART 3 Heritage and cultural tourism -- 19 Heritage -- 20 The politics of heritage tourism development -- 21 A people's story -- 22 The South-east Asian 'living museum' and its antecedents -- 23 Repackaging the past for South African tourism -- Suggested further reading for Part 3 -- PART 4 Democratizing museums and heritage -- 24 'Social exclusion zone' and 'The feelgood factor' -- 25 Learning community -- 26 Building a community-based identity at Anacostia Museum -- 27 Community museums -- 28 Places, 'cultural touchstones' and the ecomuseum -- Suggested further reading for Part 4 -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415289450
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415289450
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=199390
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