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Museums and Difference (21st Century Studies) - Softcover

 
9780253219350: Museums and Difference (21st Century Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253219353 ISBN 13: 9780253219350
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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 United States, and Japan.

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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253219353
ISBN 13 
9780253219350
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
400
Editor
Sherman Daniel J.