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• ISBN: 0415153255 (hbk)
• ISBN: 9780415153256 (hbk)
• ISBN: 0415153263 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9780415153263 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: London ; Routledge, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: an introduction to the politics of display / Sharon Macdonald -- Speaking to the eyes: museums, legibility and the social order / Tony Bennett -- The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological collections / Nélia Dias -- Reifying race: science and art in Races of mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History / Tracy Lang Teslow -- Making nature 'real' again: natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s / Steven W. Allison-Bunnell -- On interactivity: consumers, citizens and culture / Andrew Barry -- Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' / Sharon Macdonald -- Nations on display: technology and culture in Expo '92 / Penelope Harvey -- Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History / Mary Bouquet -- Can science museums take history seriously? / Jim Bennett -- Birth and breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Ken Arnold -- Balancing acts: science, Enola Gay and history wars at the Smithsonian / Thomas F. Gieryn -- Afterword: from war to debate? / Sharon Macdonald.

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Museum exhibits > Political aspects.
Science museums > Exhibitions > Political aspects.
Exhibitions > Political aspects.
Popular culture > Political aspects.
Political correctness.

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