Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts

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Bettina Messias Carbonell
John Wiley & Sons, Apr 23, 2012 - Business & Economics - 688 pages
Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy.
  • Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers
  • Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years
  • Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies
  • Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities
  • Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject
  • New entries by Victoria E. M. Cain, Neil G.W. Curtis, Catherine Ingraham, Gwyneira Isaac, Robert R. Janes, Sean Kingston, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sharon J. Macdonald, Saloni Mathur, Gerald McMaster, Sidney Moko Mead, Donald Preziosi, Karen A. Rader, Richard Sandell, Roger I. Simon, Crain Soudien, Paul Tapsell, Stephen E. Weil, Paul Williams, and Andrea Witcomb
 

Selected pages

Contents

Carbonell
12
The Universal Survey Museum
46
Museums in Theory
51
Foreword
59
A Feminist Perspective on Museums
62
Narrativity and the Museological Myths of Nationality
82
In this arrangement the majority of the texts appear in more than one category
88
Victimhood Culpability
97
Museum Philosophy in West Africa
473
Artists Reflect Introduction
491
Museums and Globalization
510
Philip Fisher Art and the Futures Past
517
The Use of Electronic Media at the National
533
Relationships
547
Museums Corporatism and the Civil Society
549
Museums as Agents of Social Inclusion
562

Natural History
117
Letter of 1863 to Mr Thomas G Cary
125
Washington D C and American Anthropology in 1846
129
Display and the Transformation
142
The Development of Ethnological Museums
158
Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum
168
Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice
177
Africa Museums and Memory
189
The Role of the Museum
199
The PittRivers Museum Oxford
206
An Address
213
Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing
225
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238
Representing Ourselves and the British
244
Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities
260
Museums National Postnational and Transcultural Identities
273
Architecture and the Scene of Evidence
287
Memory Distortion and History in the Museum
303
Museum Matters
317
Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum Mary Bouquet Thinking and Doing Otherwise Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice Fra...
324
Representing Ourselves
329
Exhibitions and the Recomposition
347
The Poetics and Experience
357
Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania
373
Museums and the Native Voice
377
Emerging Discourses around Identity in New South African Museum Exhibitions
397
Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management
411
Paul DiMaggio Cultural Entrepreneurship in NineteenthCentury Boston Part
425
The Case of the Disappearing Holbein
442
Sidney Moko Mead Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania Gerald McMaster Museums and the Native Voice
453
Art and the Futures Past
457
A Tribal Maori Response to Repatriation
575
A Meditation on Language
590
Selected Bibliography
599
Source Acknowledgments
615
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About the author (2012)

Bettina Messias Carbonell is Associate Professor of English and Program Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Humanities and Justice major at John Jay College, City University of New York. Her publications and current research focus on ethics, aesthetics, and the representation of history in literary texts and in museums.

Bibliographic information

TitleMuseum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts
EditorBettina Messias Carbonell
Edition2
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN1405173815, 9781405173810
Length688 pages
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Art / General
Business & Economics / Museum Administration & Museology
  
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