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Title Heritage, museums and galleries : an introductory reader / edited by Gerard Corsane.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 392 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Issues in heritage, museums and galleries : a brief introduction / Gerard Corsane -- The debate on heritage reviewed / Robert Lumley -- The uses and abuses of heritage / Brian Graham, Gregory John Ashworth and John E. Tunbridge -- Ideas of museums in the 1990s / Julia D. Harrison -- The informed muse : the implications of 'the new museology' for museum practice -- Deirdre C. Stam -- A blurring of the boundaries / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- The art museum as ritual / Carol Duncan -- Visiting with suspicion : recent perspectives on art and art galleries / Chris Whitehead -- The reburial issue in the twenty-first century / Jane Hubert and Cressida Fforde -- Illicit antiquities : the theft of culture / Neil Brodie.
Heritage management in Southern Africa : local, national and international discourse / Webber Ndoro and Gilbert Pwiti -- The search for legitimacy : museums in Aotearoa, New Zealand : a Maori viewpoint / Arapata T. Hakiwai -- Multiculturalism and museums : discourse about others in the age of globalization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Museums and the re-shaping of memory / Patricia Davison -- Tolerance, trust and the meaning of 'sensation' / Robert R. MacDonald -- Museums, galleries and heritage : sites of meaning-making and communication / Rhiannon Mason -- Presenting the past : a framework for discussion / Peter Stone -- Understanding the social impact of museums, galleries and heritage through the concept of capital / Andrew Newman -- Heritage : a key sector in the 'new' tourism / Richard Prentice -- The politics of heritage tourism development : emerging issues for the new millennium / Linda K. Richter -- A people's story : heritage, identity and authenticity / Sharon Macdonald -- The Southeast Asian 'living museum' and its antecedents / Michael Hitchcock, Nick Stanley and King Chung Siu -- Repackaging the past for South African tourism / Leslie Witz, Ciraj Rassool and Gary Minkley -- 'Social exclusion zone' and 'the feel good factor' / Andrew Newman -- Learning community : lessons in co-creating the civic museum / David Thelen -- Building a community-based identity at Anacostia Museum / Portia James -- Community museums : the Australian experience / Phillip Gordon -- Places, 'cultural cornerstones' and the ecomuseum / Peter Davis.
Summary This reader provides a starting point and introductory resource for anyone wishing to engage with certain key issues relating to the heritage, museums and galleries sector.
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Subject Museums.
Museums.
Heritage tourism.
Heritage tourism.
Art museums.
Art museums.
Museums -- Management.
Museums -- Management.
Museum techniques.
Museum techniques.
Culture and tourism.
Culture and tourism.
Cultural property -- Protection.
Cultural property -- Protection.
Theft from museums.
Theft from museums.
Archaeological thefts.
Archaeological thefts.
Art thefts.
Art thefts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Corsane, Gerard, 1962-
Other Form: Print version: Heritage, museums and galleries. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415289459 0415289467 (DLC) 2004012159 (OCoLC)55597123
ISBN 0203326350 (electronic book)
9780203326350 (electronic book)
9781134439645 (electronic book)
1134439644 (electronic book)
0415289459 (Cloth)