Heritage, Museums and Galleries
Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past couple of decades.\ The volume is divided into four parts:\ \ presents overviews and useful starting points for critical reflection\ focuses more specifically on selected issues of significance, looking particularly at the...
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The book provides an ideal starting point for those coming to the study of museums and galleries for the first time, and brings the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community.
1Issues in heritage, museums and galleries : a brief introduction1Pt. 1Heritage/museums/galleries : background and overview2The debate on heritage reviewed153The uses and abuses of heritage264Ideas of museums in the 1990s385The informed muse : the implications of 'the new museology' for museum practice546A blurring of the boundaries717The art museum as ritual788Visiting with suspicion : recent perspectives on art and art museums89Suggested further reading for part 1102Pt. 2Highlighting key issues9The reburial issue in the twenty-first century10710Illicit antiquities : the theft of culture12211Heritage management in southern Africa : local, national and international discourse14112The search for legitimacy : museums in Aotearoa, New Zealand - a Maori viewpoint15413Multiculturalism and museums : discourse about others in the age of globalization16314Museums and the re-shaping of memory18415Tolerance, trust and the meaning of 'sensation'19516Museums, galleries and heritage : sites of meaning-making and communication20017Presenting the past : a framework for discussion21518Understanding the social impact of museums, galleries and heritage through the concept of capital228Suggested further reading for part 2238Pt. 3Heritage and cultural tourism19Heritage : a key sector in the 'new' tourism24320The politics of heritage tourism development : emerging issues for the new millennium25721A people's story : heritage, identity and authenticity27222The South-east Asian 'living museum' and its antecedents29123Repackaging the past for South African tourism308Suggested further reading for part 3320Pt. 4Democratizing museums and heritage24'Social exclusion zone' and 'the feelgood factor'32525Learning community : lessons in co-creating the civic museum33326Building a community-based identity at Anacostia Museum33927Community museums : the Australian experience35728Places, 'cultural touchstones' and the ecomuseum365Suggested further reading for part 4377
