A companion to museum studies

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A Companion to Museum Studies Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Bibliographical Note 1 Expanding Museum Studies: An Introduction Part I Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts Introduction 2 Cultural Theory and Museum Studies 3 Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums 4 Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible 5 Museums and Anthropologies: Practices and Narratives 6 Collecting Practices 7 The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory, and Museums Part II Histories, Heritage, Identities Introduction 8 The Origins of the Public Museum 9 World Fairs and Museums 10 Making and Remaking National Identities 11 Museums and Community 12 Re-staging Histories and Identities 13 Heritage Part III: Architecture, Space, Media Introduction 14 Museum Architecture: A Brief History 15 Insight versus Entertainment: Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of Twentieth-century Art Museums 16 Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organization of Vision 17 Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space 18 New Media Part IV Visitors, Learning, Interacting Introduction 19 Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-choice Learning 20 Museum Education 21 Interactivity: Thinking Beyond 22 Studying Visitors Part V Globalization, Profession, Practice Introduction 23 Globalization: Incorporating the Museum 24 Cultural Economics 25 The Museum Profession 26 Museum Ethics 27 Museum Practice: Legal Issues 28 Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective Part VI Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures Introduction 29 Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: “Culture Wars” in Comparative Perspective 30 Science Museums and the Culture Wars 31 Postmodern Restructurings 32 Exposing the Public 33 The Future of the Museum Index