Pasts Beyond Memory

Name: Pasts Beyond Memory
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Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

By Tony Bennett

Series: Museum Meanings

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Pasts Beyond Memory explores the development of human evolution museums in the USA, UK, and Australia during the late 19th century. It offers a historical investigation into how these institutions reflected and influenced cultural and societal relationships of their time. The book also addresses contemporary challenges museums face as they move away from evolutionary and colonial legacies to better support cultural diversity.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in museum studies, cultural history, and the evolution of public education in relation to science and society. It appeals to academics, students, and professionals in anthropology, history, and cultural management.

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the changing practices of modern museums, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.

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This important new work explores how museums of human evolution developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century.

This historical investigation also contributes to current debates, both on relationships between culture and society, and to the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, with the goal of contributing to the development and management of cultural diversity.

Pasts Beyond Memory is a significant contribution to our understanding of these transformative periods and places.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415247467

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 May 2004

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 630g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Series: Museum Meanings Tony Bennett

About the Author

Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK and a Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Socio-cultural Change. His current interests focus on the sociology of culture, the history and theory of museums, and cultural policy. His recent publications include The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge 1995) and Culture: A Reformer's Science (1998).