Pasts Beyond Memory
Evolution, Museums, Colonialism
Series: Museum Meanings
List Price: $41.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-24747-4
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 05/20/2004
- Pages: 256
- Trim Size: 246X174
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Table of Contents
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 IndexCustomers who bought Pasts Beyond Memory also bought:
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