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Informationen zum Autor Bettina Messias Carbonell is Associate Professor of English and Program Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Humanities and Justice major at John Jay College, City University of New York. Her publications and current research focus on ethics, aesthetics, and the representation of history in literary texts and in museums. Klappentext Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy.* Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers* Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years* Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies* Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities* Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject* New entries by Victoria E. M. Cain, Neil G.W. Curtis, Catherine Ingraham, Gwyneira Isaac, Robert R. Janes, Sean Kingston, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sharon J. Macdonald, Saloni Mathur, Gerald McMaster, Sidney Moko Mead, Donald Preziosi, Karen A. Rader, Richard Sandell, Roger I. Simon, Crain Soudien, Paul Tapsell, Stephen E. Weil, Paul Williams, and Andrea Witcomb Zusammenfassung Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Alternative Taxonomy xi Notes on Contributors xvi Acknowledgments xxiv Introduction to the Second Edition: Museum/Studies and the "Eccentric Space" of an Anthology - Revisited 1 Bettina M. Carbonell Part I Museology: A Collection of Contexts 15 Introduction 15 1 From The Museum Age : Foreword 19 Germain Bazin 2 The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy 23 Paula Findlen 3 The Universal Survey Museum 46 Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach 4 Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums 62 Gaby Porter 5 Universal Museums, Museum Objects and Repatriation: The Tangled Stories of Things 73 Neil G.W. Curtis 6 Narrativity and the Museological Myths of Nationality 82 Donald Preziosi 7 Museums, Civic Life, and the Educative Force of Remembrance 92 Roger I. Simon 8 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility 97 Paul Williams 9 At The Holocaust Museum 116 Alice Friman Part II States of "Nature" in the Museum: Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology 117 Introduction 117 10 To the Citizens of the United States of America 123 Charles Willson Peale 11 Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary 125 Louis Agassiz 12 Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification 126 Franz Boas 13 "Magnificent Intentions": Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 129 Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr. 14 From Natural History to Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science and Nature 142 Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain 15 The Development of Ethnological Museums 158 Rober...
