Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 229 p)
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ISBN:
9780415153256
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0203838602
Serie:
Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
Inhalt:
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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Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: An introduction to the politics of display; Chapter 2 Speaking to the eyes: Museums, legibility and the social order; Chapter 3 The visibility of difference: Nineteenth-century French anthropological collections; Chapter 4 Reifying race: Science and art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History; Chapter 5 Making nature 'real' again: Natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s
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Chapter 6 On interactivity: Consumers, citizens and cultureChapter 7 Supermarket science?: Consumers and 'the public understanding of science'; Chapter 8 Nations on display: Technology and culture in Expo '92; Chapter 9 Strangers in paradise: An encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History; Chapter 10 Can science museums take history seriously?; Chapter 11 Birth and Breeding: Politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine; Chapter 12 Balancing acts: Science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian; Afterword: from war to debate?; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780203838600
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0415153255
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0415153263
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Mehr zum Autor:
Macdonald, Sharon Jeannette 1961-
