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

Book 5 of 31: Museum Meanings

Bennett, Tony

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9780415247474: Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (Museum Meanings)
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ISBN 10: 0415247470 ISBN 13: 9780415247474
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415247470
ISBN 13 
9780415247474
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
252
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