Pasts beyond memory : evolution, museums, colonialism
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Pasts beyond memory : evolution, museums, colonialism
（Museum meanings / series editors, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Flora Kaplan）
Routledge, 2004
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-225) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Dead Circuses: Expertise, Exhibition, Government 2. The Archaeological Gaze of the Historical Sciences 3. Reassembling the Museum 4. The Connective Tissue of Civilisation 5. Selective Memory: Racial Recall and Civic Renewal at the American Museum of Natural History 6. Evolutionary Ground Zero: Colonialism and the Fold of Memory 7. Words, Things and Vision: Evolution 'At a Glance' Postscript: Slow Modernism Endnotes References Index
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