Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism

Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism
ISBN-10
113453910X
ISBN-13
9781134539109
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2004-07-31
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Tony Bennett

Description

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.

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