A Companion to Museum StudiesSharon Macdonald A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society.
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Contents
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Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums | 33 |
Rendering the Visible Legible | 50 |
Practices and Narratives | 64 |
Collecting Practices | 81 |
of Scottish Ethnography in the Marischal Museum | 93 |
The Language of Museum Space | 282 |
New Media | 302 |
Introduction | 320 |
Museum Education | 340 |
Thinking Beyond | 353 |
Studying Visitors | 362 |
Globalization Profession Practice | 377 |
Cultural Economics | 398 |
Time Memory and Museums | 98 |
Washington DC | 104 |
World Fairs and Museums | 135 |
1876 | 138 |
Making and Remaking National Identities | 152 |
the American Indian | 155 |
Museums and Community | 170 |
Restaging Histories and Identities | 186 |
Heritage | 198 |
Introduction | 220 |
Untimely Meditations on | 245 |
Museums and the Organization of Vision | 263 |
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