UID:
almafu_9959229012602883
Format:
1 online resource (468 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-43963-6
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1-134-43964-4
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0-203-32635-0
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1-280-28116-2
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9786610281169
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 reflectionfocuses more specifically on selected issues of significance, looking particularly at the museum's role and responsibilities in the postmodern and postcolonial world
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Issues in heritage, museums and 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; 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
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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; 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; 24 'Social exclusion zone' and 'The feelgood factor'; 25 Learning community; 26 Building a community-based identity at Anacostia Museum; 27 Community museums
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28 Places, 'cultural touchstones' and the ecomuseumIndex
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-28946-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-28945-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203326350
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=199390
