Museums, power, knowledge : selected essays / Tony Bennett.

By: Bennett, Tony, 1947- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315560380 (ebk)Uniform titles: Essays. Selections Subject(s): Museums -- Management -- Social aspectsAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Museums, power, knowledgeDDC classification: 069/.068 LOC classification: AM7
Contents:
The exhibitionary complex -- The multiplication of culture's utility -- Museums, nations, empires, religions -- Museums and progress : narrative, ideology, performance -- Pasts beyond memories : the evolutionary museum, liberal government and the politics of prehistory -- Pedagogic objects, clean eyes and popular instruction : on sensory regimes and museum didactics -- Exhibition, difference and the logic of culture -- The "shuffle of things" and the distribution of agency -- Collecting, instructing, governing : fields, publics, milieus -- Aesthetics, culture and the ordering of race : boas and the boasians -- Re-collecting ourselves : indigenous time, culture, community and the museum.
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The exhibitionary complex -- The multiplication of culture's utility -- Museums, nations, empires, religions -- Museums and progress : narrative, ideology, performance -- Pasts beyond memories : the evolutionary museum, liberal government and the politics of prehistory -- Pedagogic objects, clean eyes and popular instruction : on sensory regimes and museum didactics -- Exhibition, difference and the logic of culture -- The "shuffle of things" and the distribution of agency -- Collecting, instructing, governing : fields, publics, milieus -- Aesthetics, culture and the ordering of race : boas and the boasians -- Re-collecting ourselves : indigenous time, culture, community and the museum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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