Physical Description
xxiii, 568 p. ; 26 cm.
Contents
Museums and their communities / Sheila Watson
The museum and the public / Stephen Weil
"Play it again, Sam" : reflections on a new museology / Marjorie M. Halpin
Place exploration : museums, identity, community / Peter Davis
Interpretive communities, strategies, and repertoires / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Museums and the combating of social inequality : roles, responsibilities, resistance / Richard Sandell
Museums for "the people"? / Josie Appleton
A quest for identity / Nelson Graburn
"A place for all of us"? : museums and communities / Andrea Witcomb
From treasure house to museum
and back / Moira Simpson
Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition : an introduction to the politics of display / Sharon Macdonald
Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum / Timothy W. Luke
The postmodern exhibition : cut on the bias, or is Enola Gay a verb? / Steven C. Dubin
Sachsenhausen : a flawed museum / Roger Bordage
Representing diversity and challenging racism : the Migration Museum / Viv Szekeres
Collection, repatriation, and identity / Cressida Fforde
Yours, mine, or ours? : conflicts between archaeologists and ethnic groups / Joe Watkins
Canadian museums and the representation of culture in a multicultural nation / George F. Macdonald and Stepehen Alsford
Museums as agents for social and political change / Dawn Casey
Museums, communities, and the politics of heritage in Northern Ireland / Elizabeth Crooke
Regenerating identity : repatriation and the Indian frame of mind / Richard W. Hill, Sr.
Identity and community : a look at four Latino museums / Herlinda Zamora
Minorities and fine-arts museums in the United States / Peter C. Marzio
The peopling of London Project / Nick Merriman
Inspiration Africa! : using tangible and intangible heritage to promote social inclusion amongst young people with disabilities / Viv Golding
Memory experience : the forms and functions of memory / Barbara Misztal
Exhibiting memoires / Steven Lubar
Past tense / Peter Beresford
The exhibition that speaks for itself : oral history and museums / Anna Green
Contesting "local" commemoration of the Second World War : the case of the Changi Chapel and Museum in Singapore / Hamzah Muzaini and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Collective amnesia and the mediation of painful pasts : the representation of France in the Second World War / Kevin Walsh
Victims remembered / Tiffany Jenkins
The Holocaust Museum concept / Terence Duffy
Mapping the memories : politics, place, and identity in the District Six Museum, Cape Town / Charmaine McEachern
State authority and the public sphere : ideas on the changing role of the museum as a Canadian social instituiton / Susan Ashley
Museums : constructing a public culture in the global age / Annette van den Bosch
Money, power, and the history of art : whose money? Whose power? Whose art history? / James Cuno
Museums and source communities / Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown
Archaeology and the Vanua development in Fiji / Andrew Crosby
Kist and tell / Matt Barnard.
Other Authors/Editors
Watson, Sheila E. R.
ISBN
041540259X
0415402603 (pbk.)
9780415402590 (hbk.)
9780415402606 (pbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
