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Heritage, museums and galleries : an introductory reader / edited by Gerard Corsane.

Contributor(s): Corsane, Gerard, 1962-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xiv, 392 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0415289459 (alk. paper); 9780415289450 (alk. paper); 0415289467 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780415289467 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780203326350; 0203326350.Subject(s): Museums | Heritage tourism | Art museums | Museums -- Management | Museum techniques | Culture and tourism | Cultural property -- Protection | Theft from museums | Archaeological thefts | Art theftsDDC classification: 069
Contents:
Issues in heritage, museums and galleries : a brief introduction / Gerard Corsane -- The debate on heritage reviewed / Robert Lumley -- The uses and abuses of heritage / Brian Graham, Gregory John Ashworth and John E. Tunbridge -- Ideas of museums in the 1990s / Julia D. Harrison -- The informed muse : the implications of 'the new museology' for museum practice -- Deirdre C. Stam -- A blurring of the boundaries / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- The art museum as ritual / Carol Duncan -- Visiting with suspicion : recent perspectives on art and art galleries / Chris Whitehead -- The reburial issue in the twenty-first century / Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde -- Illicit antiquities : the theft of culture / Neil Brodie.
Heritage management in Southern Africa : local, national and international discourse / Webber Ndoro and Gilbert Pwiti -- The search for legitimacy : museums in Aotearoa, New Zealand : a Maori viewpoint / Arapata T. Hakiwai -- Multiculturalism and museums : discourse about others in the age of globalization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Museums and the re-shaping of memory / Patricia Davison -- Tolerance, trust and the meaning of 'sensation' / Robert R. MacDonald -- Museums, galleries and heritage : sites of meaning-making and communication / Rhiannon Mason -- Presenting the past : a framework for discussion / Peter Stone -- Understanding the social impact of museums, galleries and heritage through the concept of capital / Andrew Newman -- Heritage : a key sector in the 'new' tourism / Richard Prentice -- The politics of heritage tourism development : emerging issues for the new millennium / Linda K. Richter -- A people's story : heritage, identity and authenticity / Sharon Macdonald -- The Southeast Asian 'living museum' and its antecedents / Michael Hitchcock, Nick Stanley and King Chung Siu -- Repackaging the past for South African tourism / Leslie Witz, Ciraj Rassool and Gary Minkley -- 'Social exclusion zone' and 'the feel good factor' / Andrew Newman -- Learning community : lessons in co-creating the civic museum / David Thelen -- Building a community-based identity at Anacostia Museum / Portia James -- Community museums : the Australian experience / Phillip Gordon -- Places, 'cultural cornerstones' and the ecomuseum / Peter Davis.
Summary: This comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the forefront in the field of heritage, museums, and galleries over the past couple of decades. 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. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2004012159-d.html.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 museum's role and responsibilities in the postmodern and postcolonial world concentrates on issues related to cultural heritage and tourism dedicated to public participation in heritage, museum and gallery processes and activities.

The book provides an ideal starting point for those coming to the study of museums and galleries for the first time.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issues in heritage, museums and galleries : a brief introduction / Gerard Corsane -- The debate on heritage reviewed / Robert Lumley -- The uses and abuses of heritage / Brian Graham, Gregory John Ashworth and John E. Tunbridge -- Ideas of museums in the 1990s / Julia D. Harrison -- The informed muse : the implications of 'the new museology' for museum practice -- Deirdre C. Stam -- A blurring of the boundaries / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- The art museum as ritual / Carol Duncan -- Visiting with suspicion : recent perspectives on art and art galleries / Chris Whitehead -- The reburial issue in the twenty-first century / Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde -- Illicit antiquities : the theft of culture / Neil Brodie.

Heritage management in Southern Africa : local, national and international discourse / Webber Ndoro and Gilbert Pwiti -- The search for legitimacy : museums in Aotearoa, New Zealand : a Maori viewpoint / Arapata T. Hakiwai -- Multiculturalism and museums : discourse about others in the age of globalization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Museums and the re-shaping of memory / Patricia Davison -- Tolerance, trust and the meaning of 'sensation' / Robert R. MacDonald -- Museums, galleries and heritage : sites of meaning-making and communication / Rhiannon Mason -- Presenting the past : a framework for discussion / Peter Stone -- Understanding the social impact of museums, galleries and heritage through the concept of capital / Andrew Newman -- Heritage : a key sector in the 'new' tourism / Richard Prentice -- The politics of heritage tourism development : emerging issues for the new millennium / Linda K. Richter -- A people's story : heritage, identity and authenticity / Sharon Macdonald -- The Southeast Asian 'living museum' and its antecedents / Michael Hitchcock, Nick Stanley and King Chung Siu -- Repackaging the past for South African tourism / Leslie Witz, Ciraj Rassool and Gary Minkley -- 'Social exclusion zone' and 'the feel good factor' / Andrew Newman -- Learning community : lessons in co-creating the civic museum / David Thelen -- Building a community-based identity at Anacostia Museum / Portia James -- Community museums : the Australian experience / Phillip Gordon -- Places, 'cultural cornerstones' and the ecomuseum / Peter Davis.

This comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the forefront in the field of heritage, museums, and galleries over the past couple of decades. 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. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2004012159-d.html.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Heritage/Museums/Galleries: Background and Overview
  • 2 Highlighting Key Issues
  • 3 Heritage and Cultural Tourism
  • 4 Democratising Museums and Heritage

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Gerard Corsane is lecturer in Museum, Heritage and Gallery Studies, University of Newcastle.