Museums and their communities
By: edited by Sheila Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Sheila E. R.
Series: Leicester readers in museum studies
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780415402590; 9780415402606
Subjects: Museums -- Social aspects; Museum exhibits -- Social aspects; Community life; Museums -- Philosophy; Museum visitors; Group identity; Memory -- Social aspects; Historical museums -- Social aspects; Anthropological museums and collections -- Social aspects; Archaeological museums and collections -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Museums and their communities / Sheila Watson; title: The museum and the public / Stephen Weil; title: "Play it again, Sam" : reflections on a new museology / Marjorie M. Halpin; title: Place exploration : museums, identity, community / Peter Davis; title: Interpretive communities, strategies, and repertoires / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill; title: Museums and the combating of social inequality : roles, responsibilities, resistance / Richard Sandell; title: Museums for "the people"? / Josie Appleton; title: A quest for identity / Nelson Graburn; title: "A place for all of us"? : museums and communities / Andrea Witcomb; title: From treasure house to museum; title: and back / Moira Simpson; title: Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition : an introduction to the politics of display / Sharon Macdonald; title: Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum / Timothy W. Luke; title: The postmodern exhibition : cut on the bias, or is Enola Gay a verb? / Steven C. Dubin; title: Sachsenhausen : a flawed museum / Roger Bordage; title: Representing diversity and challenging racism : the Migration Museum / Viv Szekeres; title: Collection, repatriation, and identity / Cressida Fforde; title: Yours, mine, or ours? : conflicts between archaeologists and ethnic groups / Joe Watkins; title: Canadian museums and the representation of culture in a multicultural nation / George F. Macdonald and Stepehen Alsford; title: Museums as agents for social and political change / Dawn Casey; title: Museums, communities, and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke; title: Regenerating identity : repatriation and the Indian frame of mind / Richard W. Hill, Sr.; title: Identity and community : a look at four Latino museums / Herlinda Zamora; title: Minorities and fine-arts museums in the United States / Peter C. Marzio; title: The peopling of London Project / Nick Merriman; title: Inspiration Africa! : using tangible and intangible heritage to promote social inclusion amongst young people with disabilities / Viv Golding; title: Memory experience : the forms and functions of memory / Barbara Misztal; title: Exhibiting memoires / Steven Lubar; title: Past tense / Peter Beresford; title: The exhibition that speaks for itself : oral history and museums / Anna Green; title: Contesting "local" commemoration of the Second World War : the case of the Changi Chapel and Museum in Singapore / Hamzah Muzaini and Brenda S.A. Yeoh; title: Collective amnesia and the mediation of painful pasts : the representation of France in the Second World War / Kevin Walsh; title: Victims remembered / Tiffany Jenkins; title: The Holocaust Museum concept / Terence Duffy; title: Mapping the memories : politics, place, and identity in the District Six Museum, Cape Town / Charmaine McEachern; title: State authority and the public sphere : ideas on the changing role of the museum as a Canadian social instituiton / Susan Ashley; title: Museums : constructing a public culture in the global age / Annette van den Bosch; title: Money, power, and the history of art : whose money? Whose power? Whose art history? / James Cuno; title: Museums and source communities / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown; title: Archaeology and the Vanua development in Fiji / Andrew Crosby; title: Kist and tell / Matt Barnard.