Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (Museum Meanings) - Hardcover

Bennett, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415247462 ISBN 13: 9780415247467

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2004

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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.

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Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK and a Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Socio-cultural Change. His current interests focus on the sociology of culture, the history and theory of museums, and cultural policy. His recent publications include The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge 1995) and Culture: A Reformer's Science (1998).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415247462
• ISBN 13: 9780415247467
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Deutschland