Museum Studies : An Anthology of Contexts

Museum Studies provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy, and their adopring or compative publics. This fully revised and updated new edition of the bestselling anthology includes 19 new essays as well as completely revised introductory material that provide vital background on the field and its contexts. * The most comprehensive and ambitious volume available on museum studies * Offers encyclopedic coverage of the issues critical to the rise and role of the museum * Includes chapters on history and development, the ethics of classification, exhibition, and exclusion, the representation of cultures, property and ownership, the poetics of display, material culture and historical documentation, tradition, innovation, and self-reflexivity in museum practice