Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world

Author(s)

• Macdonald, Sharon
• Fyfe, Gordon

Bibliographic Information

Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world

edited by Sharon Macdonald and Gordon Fyfe

（Sociological review monograph）

Blackwell, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Museums and globalization / Martin Prösler
• How societies remember the past / John Urry
• Museums as contested sites of remembrance : the Enola Gay affair / Vera Zolberg
• Into the heart of irony : ethnographic exhibitions and the politics of difference / Henrietta Riegel
• Seeing through solidity : a feminist perspective on museums / Gaby Porter
• Decoding the visitor's gaze : rethinking museum visiting / Gordon Fyfe, Max Ross
• The utopics of social ordering : Stonehenge as a museum without walls / Kevin Hetherington
• Maintaining boundaries, or 'mainstreaming' black history in a white museum / Eric Gable
• A Trojan Horse at the Tate : theorizing the museum as agency and structure / Gordon Fyfe

Details

• NCID: BA27845145
• ISBN:
  • 0631201513
• LCCN: 96006174
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 236 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : AM7
  • DC20 : 069/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Museums -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Museums -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Museums -- Exhibitions
  • LCSH : Multiculturalism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00269305