Science, Magic & Religion
Subtitle: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic (New Directions in Anthropology)
Contributors: Mary Bouquet (Editor); Nuno Porto (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: July 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781571815217
Subjects: Museums & Museology; Sociology; Social Science; Anthropology - Cultural
First sentence: This passage from Umberto Eco's celebrated novel Foucault's Pendulum captures succinctly the central theme of this book: how are places such as the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris, one of the key settings of Eco's novel, transformed into ritual sites?