Format:
XXXIII, 640 S.
,
26 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
063122825X
,
0631228306
Content:
Introduction: Museum/studies and the "eccentric space" of an anthology / Bettina Messias Carbonell -- From The museum age : foreword / Germain Bazin -- The museum : its classical etymology and renaissance genealogy / Paula Findlen -- The universal survey museum / Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach -- Brain of the earth's body : museums and the framing of modernity / Donald Preziosi -- The museum refuses to stand still / Kenneth Hudson -- The mirror and the tomb : Africa, museums, and memory / Fran(c)ʹoise Lionnet -- Seeing through solidity : a feminist perspective on museums / Gaby Porter -- Museums of "human suffering" and the struggle for human rights / Terence M. Duffy -- At the Holocaust Museum / Alice Friman -- To the citizens of the United States of America / Charles Willson Peale -- Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary / Louis Agassiz -- The development of ethnological museums / Robert Goldwater -- Museums of ethnology and their classification / Franz Boas -- The constitution of nature : taxonomy as politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram / Christopher Looby -- "Magnificent intentions" : Washington, D.C., and American anthropology in 1846 / Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr. -- Ethnology : a science on display / Fabrice Grognet -- Ambiguous messages and ironic twists : Into the heart of Africa and The other museum / Enid Schildkrout -- Thinking and doing otherwise : anthropological theory in exhibitionary practice / Mary Bouquet -- Museum matters / Gyan Prakash -- What white publishers won't print / Zora Neale Hurston -- From On the museum of art : an address / J.C. Robinson -- Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities / Annie E. Coombes -- Fracturing the imperial mind / Eleanor Heartney --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: Museum/studies and the "eccentric space" of an anthology
,
From The museum age : foreword
,
The museum : its classical etymology and renaissance genealogy
,
The universal survey museum
,
Brain of the earth's body : museums and the framing of modernity
,
The museum refuses to stand still
,
The mirror and the tomb : Africa, museums, and memory
,
Seeing through solidity : a feminist perspective on museums
,
Museums of "human suffering" and the struggle for human rights
,
At the Holocaust Museum
,
To the citizens of the United States of America
,
Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary
,
The development of ethnological museums
,
Museums of ethnology and their classification
,
The constitution of nature : taxonomy as politics in Jefferson, Peale, and Bartram
,
"Magnificent intentions" : Washington, D.C., and American anthropology in 1846
,
Ethnology : a science on display
,
Ambiguous messages and ironic twists : Into the heart of Africa and The other museum
,
Thinking and doing otherwise : anthropological theory in exhibitionary practice
,
Museum matters
,
What white publishers won't print
,
From On the museum of art : an address
,
Museums and the formation of national and cultural identities
,
Fracturing the imperial mind
Language:
English
Keywords:
Museumskunde
;
Museum
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Sammlung von Beiträgen
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003014048.html
