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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Rabinowitz |
ISBN: | 9781469629506 146962950X |
OCLC Number: | 943710316 |
Description: | 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation -- Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere -- Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster -- Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it? -- Postscript -- A reader's reflections. |
Responsibility: | Richard Rabinowitz ; with illustrations by Richard T. Hoyen. |
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