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Museums and Difference
Sherman
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Description for Museums and Difference
Paperback. How museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics Editor(s): Sherman, Daniel J. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559.
Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference-notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race-have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference offers the perspectives of scholars and museum professionals in tandem, using the concept of difference to reexamine how museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics. Essays explore a wide range of examples from around the world and from the 19th century to the present, including case studies of special exhibitions as well as broad surveys of institutions in Europe, the ... Read more
Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference-notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race-have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference offers the perspectives of scholars and museum professionals in tandem, using the concept of difference to reexamine how museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics. Essays explore a wide range of examples from around the world and from the 19th century to the present, including case studies of special exhibitions as well as broad surveys of institutions in Europe, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
21st Century Studies
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253219350
SKU
V9780253219350
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About Sherman
Daniel J. Sherman is Professor of History and Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of The Construction of Memory in Interwar France and editor (with Terry Nardin) of Terror, Culture, Politics (IUP, 2006).
Reviews for Museums and Difference
. . . fascinating and probing treatments of issues that press on both museum workers and folklorists.October 15, 2008
Lee Haring
Brooklyn College (Emeritus)
Museum and Difference is about the role that museums play in shaping the stories that we tell about who we are and how we are different from other people. It is an interesting ... Read more
Lee Haring
Brooklyn College (Emeritus)
Museum and Difference is about the role that museums play in shaping the stories that we tell about who we are and how we are different from other people. It is an interesting ... Read more