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Notes on Contributors | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Bibliographical Note | |
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Expanding Museum Studies: an Introduction | |
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Perspectives, Disciplines, Concepts | |
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Introduction | |
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Cultural Theory and Museum Studies | |
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Sociology and the Social Aspects of Museums | |
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Art History and Museology: Rendering the Visible Legible | |
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Museums and Anthropologies. Practices and Narratives | |
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Collecting Practices | |
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The Conundrum of Ephemerality: Time, Memory and Museums | |
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Histories, Heritage, Identities | |
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Introduction | |
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The Origins of the Public Museum | |
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World's Fairs and Museums | |
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Making and Remaking National Identities | |
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Museums and Community | |
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Re-staging Histories and Identities | |
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Heritage | |
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Architecture, Space, Media | |
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Introduction | |
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Museum Architecture: a Brief History | |
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Insight versus Entertainment. Untimely Meditations on the Architecture of 20th-Century Art Museums | |
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Civic Seeing: Museums and the Organisation of Vision | |
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Spatial Syntax: the Language of Museum Space | |
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New Media | |
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Visitors, Learning, Interacting: Introduction | |
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Living in a Learning Society: Museums and Free-Choice Learning | |
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Museum Education | |
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Interactivity: Thinking Beyond | |
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Studying Visitors | |
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Globalization, Profession, Practice | |
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Introduction | |
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Globalization: In-Corporating the Museum | |
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Cultural Economics | |
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The Museum Profession | |
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Museum Ethics | |
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Museum Practice: Legal Issues | |
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Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
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Culture Wars, Transformations, Futures | |
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Introduction | |
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Incivilities in Civil(-ized) Places: "Culture Wars" in Comparative Perspective | |
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Science Museums and the Culture Wars | |
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Postmodern Restructurings | |
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Exposing the Public | |
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The Future of Museums | |
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Index | |