Museums and the appropriation of culture
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Museums and the appropriation of culture
（New research in museum studies : an international series / series editor, Susan Pearce ; reviews editor, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, 4）
Athlone Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Indigenous peoples are now claiming a say in the way that their cultures are represented and this volume considers the issues that arise. It also points to ways in which museums are negotiating their terms and relationships with the peoples whose cultures they exhibit.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: "Please don't touch the ceiling" - the culture of appropriation
- museum theatre in the 1990s - trailblazer or camp-follower?
- childhood's pattern - appropriation by generation
- presenting a divisive culture - two exhibitions at the Ulster folk and transport museum
- appropriating the visitor by addressing the second person
- mobile museum in India
- labour history in museums
- Briton, Boer and black savage South Africa
- an archaeology of the DeWitt Wallace gallery at colonial Williamsburg
- museums and indigenous peoples in Canada. Part 2 Reviews, edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill: museums and galleries and their audiences - a literature review
- the museum and education - a new gallery at the British Museum, London
- Snibston Discovery Park - a review from an Indian perspective
- the alchemy of play - Eureka! the Museum of Children
- archaeologists and aesthetes
- call for papers for forthcoming volumes.
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