A companion to museum studies
By: edited by Sharon Macdonald.
Contributors: Macdonald, Sharon.
Series: Blackwell companions in cultural studies ;; 12
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9781405108393
Subjects: Museums -- Philosophy; Museums -- Social aspects; Museum techniques
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Expanding museum studies : an introduction / Sharon Macdonald; title: Cultural theory and museum studies / Rhiannon Mason; title: Sociology and the social aspects of museums / Gordon Fyfe; title: Art history and museology : rendering the visible legible / Donald Preziosi; title: Museums and anthropologies : practices and narratives / Anthony Alan Shelton; title: Collecting practices / Sharon Macdonald; title: The conundrum of ephemerality : time, memory, and museums / Susan A. Crane; title: The origins of the public museum / Jeffrey Abt; title: World fairs and museums / Robert W. Rydell; title: Making and remaking national identities / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan; title: Museums and community / Elizabeth Crooke; title: Re-staging histories and identities / Rosmarie Beier-de Haan; title: Heritage / Steven Hoelscher; title: Museum architecture : a brief history / Michaela Giebelhausen; title: Insight versus entertainment : untimely meditations on the architecture of twentieth-century art museums / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani; title: Seeing : museums and the organization of vision / Tony Bennett; title: Space syntax : the language of museum space / Bill Hillier and Kali Tzortzi; title: New media / Michelle Henning; title: Living in a learning society : museums and free-choice learning / John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking, and Marianna Adams; title: Museum education / George E. Hein; title: Interactivity : thinking beyond / Andrea Witcomb; title: Studying visitors / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill; title: Globalization : incorporating the museum / Mark W. Rectanus; title: Cultural economics / Bruno S. Frey and Stephan Meier; title: The museum profession / Patrick J. Boylan; title: Museum ethics / Tristram Besterman; title: Museum practice : legal issues / Patty Gerstenblith; title: Non-western models of museums and curation in cross-cultural perspective / Christina Kreps; title: Incivilities in civil(-ized) places : culture wars in comparative perspective / Steven C. Dubin; title: Science museums and the culture wars / Steven Conn; title: Postmodern restructurings / Nick Prior; title: Exposing the public / Mieke Bal; title: The future of the museum / Charles Saumarez Smith.