Museum of Babel - Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography

The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum's own past. Thurner argues that the ghosts of the museum's past evoked in these exhibits maps museography's future.

List of contents

0 Antechamber; 1 Eden;2 Ark and Temple; 3 New Atlantis; 4 Old New World; 5 New Old World; 6 New Acropolis; 7 Babel

About the author

Mark Thurner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, History and Humanities at FLACSO Ecuador. He has held research and teaching positions at the University of London, the University of Florida, the University of Turin, the City College of New York, the Catholic University of Peru, the University of San Marcos, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, and the Colegio de Mexico. His research has been further supported by the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright-Hays Programme, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Summary

The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum’s own past. Thurner argues that the ghosts of the museum’s past evoked in these exhibits maps museography’s future.

Product details

• Authors: Thurner, Mark Thurner, Mark (Flacso Thurner, Mark (University of London Thurner, Thurner Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138565326
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56532-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies; Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History and Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies