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The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture (Heritage: Care-preservation-management) - Hardcover

 
9780415153256: The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture (Heritage: Care-preservation-management)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415153255 ISBN 13: 9780415153256
Verlag: Routledge, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about 'science' and 'objectivity' are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in point.
The Politics of Display charts the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display. The Politics of Display brings together an array of international scholars in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine, and locations include the United States of America, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Spain.
This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies and science studies.

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Sharon Macdonald is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Remaining Culture (1997), editor of Inside Identities (1993) and co-editor of Theorizing Museums (1996) and The Sociological Review.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0415153255
ISBN 13 
9780415153256
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
260
Herausgeber
Macdonald Sharon
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