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Defining the modern museum : a case study of the challenges of exchange / Lianne McTavish.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural spacesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1442660546
  • 9781442660540
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defining the modern museum.DDC classification:
  • 069.09715/1 23
LOC classification:
  • AM21.N4 M37 2013
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Contents:
Introduction: The Impossible Museum -- 1 Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace -- 2 Learning to See: Vision, Visuality, and Material Culture, 1862-1929 -- 3 Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940 -- 4 Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940 -- 5 Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s -- Conclusion.
Summary: Shedding light on many topics of current interest, especially the commodification and globalization of museums, this study makes a lively contribution to museum studies and cultural studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Shedding light on many topics of current interest, especially the commodification and globalization of museums, this study makes a lively contribution to museum studies and cultural studies.

Introduction: The Impossible Museum -- 1 Exchanging Values in the Nineteenth-Century Museum Marketplace -- 2 Learning to See: Vision, Visuality, and Material Culture, 1862-1929 -- 3 Offering Orientalism: Women and the Gift Economy of the Museum, 1880-1940 -- 4 Libraries and Museums: Shifting Relationships, 1830-1940 -- 5 Gendered Professionals: Debating the Ideal Museum Worker during the 1930s and 1940s -- Conclusion.

English.

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