Pasts Beyond Memory : Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

Tony Bennett

ISBN 10: 0415247462 / ISBN 13: 9780415247467

Published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, 2004

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pasts Beyond Memory : Evolution, Museums, Colonialism
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Routledge
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415247462
• ISBN 13: 9780415247467
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 254W x 178H x 17D millimeters 254 millimeters width by 178 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 630 grams

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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.

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).