Pasts Beyond Memory

Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

Paperback Engels 2004 9780415247474
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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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ISBN13:9780415247474
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:252
Uitgever:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Introduction  1. Dead Circuses: Expertise, Exhibition, Government  2. The Archaeological Gaze of the Historical Sciences  3. Reassembling the Museum  4. The Connective Tissue of Civilisation  5. Selective Memory: Racial Recall and Civic Renewal at the American Museum of Natural History  6. Evolutionary Ground Zero: Colonialism and the Fold of Memory  7. Words, Things and Vision: Evolution 'At a Glance' Postscript: Slow Modernism  Endnotes  References  Index

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