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| List of Illustrations | |
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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 | |