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Do Museums Still Need Objects?

By closely observing the cultural, intellectual, and political roles that museums play in contemporary society, while also delving deeply into their institutional histories, historian Steven Conn demonstrates that museums are no longer seen simply as houses for collections of objects. The author ranges across a wide variety of museum types - from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums - asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non-Western societies, and about public institutions and the changing nature of their constituencies.

Contents

Introduction: Thinking about Museums Chapter 1. Do Museums Still Need Objects? Chapter 2.Whose Objects? Whose Culture? The Contexts of Repatriation Chapter 3. Where Is the East? Chapter 4. Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone? Chapter 5. The Birth and the Death of a Museum Chapter 6. Museums, Public Space, and Civic Identity Notes Index Acknowledgments

Specifications

Pm Supplier	Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pm Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Pm Isbn 10	0812221559
Pm Isbn 13	9780812221558
Pm Publication Date	2010-12-31
Pm Width	152
Pm Author	Conn, Steven
Pm Height	17
Pm Longness	229

Author: Conn, Steven
Page Count: 272