A Companion to Museum StudiesSharon Macdonald A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.
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Contents
Perspectives Disciplines Concepts | 11 |
Culture Wars Transformations Futures 473 | 12 |
Cultural Theory and Museum Studies | 17 |
Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums | 33 |
Rendering the Visible Legible | 50 |
3 | 58 |
Practices and Narratives | 64 |
Collecting Practices | 81 |
Untimely Meditations on | 245 |
Museums and the Organization of Vision | 263 |
The Language of Museum Space | 282 |
New Media | 302 |
Introduction | 320 |
Museum Education | 340 |
Thinking Beyond | 353 |
Studying Visitors | 362 |
1 | 92 |
Time Memory and Museums | 98 |
1 | 103 |
1 | 120 |
2 | 128 |
World Fairs and Museums | 135 |
1 | 137 |
2 | 144 |
Making and Remaking National Identities | 152 |
1 | 154 |
5 | 161 |
Museums and Community | 170 |
1 | 176 |
Restaging Histories and Identities | 186 |
Heritage | 198 |
Introduction | 220 |
Globalization Profession Practice | 377 |
161 | 388 |
Cultural Economics | 398 |
178 | 406 |
The Museum Profession | 415 |
Museum Ethics | 431 |
Legal Issues | 442 |
NonWestern Models of Museums and Curation | 457 |
Introduction | 474 |
Science Museums and the Culture Wars | 494 |
Postmodern Restructurings | 509 |
Exposing the Public | 525 |
The Future of the Museum | 543 |
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