Pasts Beyond Memory : Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

ISBN-13: 9780415247474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 233 str.

Tony Bennett

Opis

This important new work explores how museums of human evolution developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century. This historical investigation also contributes to current debates, both on relationships between culture and society, and to the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, with the goal of contributing to the development and management of cultural diversity.

Recenzje

'Sure to be a major intervention in museums and cultural studies ... an important and provocative text ... I expect this book to be as important as Birth of the Museum, which is saying something, since that work is the outstanding study of how museums and the public cultural sphere have developed.' - Ivan Karp, Emory University

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Dead Circuses: Expertise, Exhibition, Government  2. The Archaeological Gaze of the Historical Sciences  3. Reassembling the Museum  4. The Connective Tissue of Civilisation  5. Selective Memory: Racial Recall and Civic Renewal at the American Museum of Natural History  6. Evolutionary Ground Zero: Colonialism and the Fold of Memory  7. Words, Things and Vision: Evolution 'At a Glance' Postscript: Slow Modernism  Endnotes  References  Index

O autorze

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).