Theorizing museums : representing identity and diversity in a changing world / ed. by Sharon Macdonald ....

Ämnesord

This volume brings together original contributions from international scholars to show how social and cultural theory can bring new insight to debate about museums. Analytical perspectives on the museum are drawn from the anthropology and sociology of globalisation, time space and consumption, as well as from feminism, psychoanalysis, experimental ethnography and literary theory. These perspectives are brought to bear on questions of museum's changing role and position in the representation of the nation-state, of community, and of gender, class and ethnicity. The examples in this book are drawn from different kinds of museums around the world, and include significant controversial and experimental exhibitions; the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian; feminist exhibitions in Scandinavia; the National Museum of Sri Lanka; Victorian art at the Tate; the representation of race at Colonial Williamsburg and of colonialism and identity in Canada. 

Museologi  (sao)

Museum techniques  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Kulturanthropologie ; SWD-ID: 41339034

Multiculturalism

Museum ; SWD-ID: 40407950

Museum exhibits

Museums Exhibitions

Museums Philosophy

Museums Social aspects

Soziologie ; SWD-ID: 40776244

Klassifikation

069.01 (DDC)

Iib (kssb/8)

02.30 ; Museumskunde (bcc)

15.07 ; Kulturgeschichte (bcc)

24 (ssg)