A Companion to museum studies / edited by Sharon Macdonald

List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Note -- 1. Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction / Sharon Macdonald -- I. Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts: Introduction ; 2. Cultural Theory and Museum Studies / Rhiannon Mason ; 3. Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums / Gordon Fyfe ; 4. Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible / Donald Preziosi ; 5. Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives / Anthony Alan Shelton ; 6. Collecting Practices / Sharon Macdonald ; 7. The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums / Susan A. Crane -- II. Histories, Heritage, Identities: Introduction ; 8. The Origins of the Public Museum / Jeffrey Abt ; 9. World Fairs and Museums / Robert W. Rydell ; 10. Making and Remaking National Identities / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan ; 11. Museums and Community / Elizabeth Crooke ; 12. Re-staging Histories and Identities / Rosmarie Beier-de Haan ; 13. Heritage / Steven Hoelscher -- III. Architecture, Space, Media: Introduction ; 14. Museum Architecture: A Brief History / Michaela Giebelhausen ; 15. Insight versus Entertainment: Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of Twentieth-century Art Museums / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani ; 16. Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision / Tony Bennett ; 17. Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space / Bill Hillier, Kali Tzortzi ; 18. New Media / Michelle Henning -- IV. Visitors, Learning, Interacting: Introduction ; 19. Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning / John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, Marianna Adams ; 20. Museum Education / George E. Hein ; 21. Interactivity: Thinking Beyond / Andrea Witcomb ; 22. Studying Visitors / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill -- V. Globalization, Profession, Practice: Introduction ; 23. Globalization: Incorporating the Museum / Mark W. Rectanus ; 24. Cultural Economics / Bruno S. Frey, Stephan Meier ; 25. The Museum Profession / Patrick J. Boylan ; 26. Museum Ethics / Tristram Besterman ; 27. Museum Practice: Legal Issues / Patty Gerstenblith ; 28. Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective / Christina Kreps -- VI. Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures: Introduction ; 29. Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: "Culture Wars" in Comparative Perspective / Steven C. Dubin ; 30. Science Museums and the Culture Wars / Steven Conn ; 31. Postmodern Restructurings / Nick Prior ; 32. Exposing the Public / Mieke Bal ; 33. The Future of the Museum / Charles Saumarez Smith -- Index