Museums and the Making of "Ourselves": The Role of Objects in National Identity.
From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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Date: 2/1/1997
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Author: Lawson, Barbara
Flora Kaplan, anthropologist and director of New York University's Museum Studies Program, has assembled a provocative collection of essays based on the notion that museums, their collections and their exhibitions are products and agents of social and political change. Although recent works have examined the social and political dimensions of specific exhibits and institutions, this is the first such analysis to allow cross-cultural comparisons of national and local examples to be ...
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