The Politics of display : museums, science, culture / edited by Sharon Macdonald
Publication details: London [etc.] : Routledge, 1998Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 246 pISBN:- 0415153263
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala | General | S 01809 | Available | 1900152202 |
Reimpressions: 2001, 2007
List of figures -- Notes contributors -- Preface -- 1. Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibitions: an introduction to the politics of display / Sharon Macdonald -- 2. Speaking to the eyes: museums, legibility and the social order / Tony Bennett -- 3. The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological collections / Nélia Dias -- 4. Reifying race: science and art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History / Tracy Lang Teslow -- 5. Making nature "real" again: natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s / Steven W. Allison-Bunnell -- 6. On interactivity: consumers, citizens and culture / Andrew Barry -- 7. Supermarket science? Consumers and "the public understanding of science" / Sharon Macdonald -- 8. Nations on display: technology and culture in Expo '92 / Penelope Harvey -- 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 -- 11. Birth and breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Ken Arnold -- 21. Balancing acts: science, Enola Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian / Sharon Macdonals -- Index
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