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Book SynopsisA stunning new range of stationery produced in association with the British Museum.These beautiful colour postcards, illustrated with artwork and artifacts from the vast archives of the British Museum, are perfect to pull out and send.

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Book SynopsisNew and experienced managers looking for advice and ideas will find InterpPress''s Management of Interpretive Sites: Developing Sustainable Operations Through Effective Leadership helpful in developing managerial and leadership skills. Whether you need to write personnel policies, develop a business plan, conduct meetings, or use interpretive efforts to convince visitors to become stewards of your resource, this book contains specific suggestions based upon the authors'' combined 60 years of experience in running not-for-profit, governmental, and for-profit organizations.

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Book SynopsisKiersten F. Latham, PhD, is the President and CEO of Sauder Village in Archbold, Ohio, USA. John E. Simmons is a writer and consultant for Museologica (an international museum consulting service).

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Book SynopsisJohn E. Simmons (B.S., Systematics and Ecology; M.A., Museum Studies) worked as a zoo keeper before becoming a collection manager at the California Academy of Sciences and later at the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, where he also served as Director of the Museum Studies Program until 2007. He has published more than 150 papers and books on museology and the care of collections, particularly for natural history. Since 2008, Simmons has run Museologica, an international museum consulting service, and has taught workshops and university classes on the care of collections in the U.S. and abroad.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. This title focuses on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa.Trade Review"There is something fresh, rewarding, and even courageous in Sara Byala's approach. She not only manages to reconstruct the history of MuseumAfrica but also demonstrates quite clearly that none of the new museums in South Africa today were created without some institutional (or bureaucratic) connection to it." (Christopher B. Steiner, Connecticut College)"

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Book SynopsisA piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Kept in museum collections across the US, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. This book explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating how Americans view the past.Trade Review"Teresa Barnett is interested in the survival of public things and personal and what they meant to people. Drawing selectively but constructively upon the evidence, episodes, and theories, Sacred Relics is a very sophisticated and polished piece of work, offering the reader a clear sense of change over time in the realm of reliquaries and their keepers. There is no single work like it in US historiography. It will be a must-read in the fields of cultural, intellectual, and social history." (Michael Kammen, Cornell University)"

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Book SynopsisAmerican art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown's achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown's showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This powerful book will be of particular importance to those working in museum and tribal settings, but is highly appropriate for anyone interested in cultural heritage and the legal efforts to manage claims for Native patrimony. Essential."--Choice "Colwell ably and sensitively tells the often conflict-ridden story of how and why museums in the US relinquished their hold over this material. . . . Colwell finds himself squarely in the middle of each quandary: a practising anthropologist who works alongside Native Americans every day and is sensitive to their cultural dynamics. Colwell's account favours the Native American perspective--a sensible approach for a book aimed at scientifically literate readers who may lean the other way. Readers will come away with a deeper appreciation of Native American cultural imperatives and the complexity of the situation."--New Scientist "A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Indian artifacts and the study of Indian culture."--Wall Street Journal "Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work. . . . Colwell's book raises provocative questions about who owns the past, and is surely an important work for curators--or anyone--interested in America's treatment of its cultural legacy."--Publishers Weekly "Without ever descending into sensationalistic tones, the author exposes delicate facts about massacres, beliefs, desecrations, and illegal activities, deploying evidence with a measured distance that is difficult to argue against. Native American voices are given plenty of space to support their cases. They emerge as strong and determined and this is what the author wants us to perceive as a way to sensitise the public to the deep ethical implications that these, like many other cases, present us with. . . [Colwell] explicitly make[s] the theme of objects' agency and personhood the core of [his] most poignant arguments about repatriation, ethics, and conservation."--Transmotion "In this beautifully written meditation on the vexed relationship between museums and Native American communities, Colwell reveals as never before the human dimensions of our recent struggles over repatriation. Important, necessary reading for all those who grapple with the essential question of how best to respect and honor the past."--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits breaks new ground. Colwell's dual roles of museum curator and human rights advocate offers a narrative of personal growth and professional practice that couples a humanist's sensitivities with a historian's insistence on primary documentary sources. The resulting breath of fresh air contributes mightily to still-controversial conversations about American reburial and repatriation. The message sounds loud and clear: Twenty-first century museums can indeed stand tall in addressing their own complex histories. Why do some still feel obliged to cover up past performance, to lock out qualified researchers from their archives and to sugar-coat their past in the hopes that nobody will notice?" --David H. Thomas, author of Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity "A lightly written, insider's account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America's culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider's account--just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield." --Spectator "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits uses the story of one museum to show how Native American symbols of identity and ceremony and ancestral bones were initially appropriated as objects of cultural patrimony, but recently have become part of a complicated struggle of ownership. As Colwell profoundly shows, the emotional price paid by everyone involved--Native American, archaeologist, and museum curator--is never small." --Larry J. Zimmerman, author of The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is a sobering peek into the controversy that surrounds tribal artifacts and human remains found in museums throughout the United States. His eloquent narration details several unique cases of repatriation. . . . Colwell has a unique perspective. He provides the reader with a firsthand look at the repatriation process, sympathetically including tribal perspectives--something that few museum directors have sought to do when writing on this subject in the past."--Science

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Book SynopsisProfitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level.Trade ReviewThis book is organizational development for the person charged with developing the organization and initiating change. Organized to enable executives to focus on what the organization needs to do well in order to build and sustain success, it nonetheless provides a strong technical explanation for the actions being taken to implement change. By providing such perspective, Profitably Healthy Companies avoids faddism while equipping the reader to drive change with a good understanding of the principles underpinning the process. It belongs on the executive’s bookshelf. Further, it is an excellent tool for bridging the gap between academic education in organization development and the challenges of applying the subject matter in the field, and thus an excellent book to digest before diving into the business of organizational change. Burke and O’Malley have made great strides in bridging the gap between academic texts and organization/leadership self-help books. -- David Swinford, president and CEO, Pearl MeyerWhether you’re looking for practical guidance for addressing key challenges facing organizations today or a modern primer on the theory behind the practice of OD, Burke and O’Malley offer a fresh and actionable perspective. As we embrace the new realities of what it takes to lead successful organizations, having a clear understanding of which interventions work and why they work is critical. Whether you are a leader, manager or organization development and change practitioner Burke and O’Malley provide the practical guidance you need to make a difference. -- Allan Church, Senior Vice President, Global Talent Management, PepsiCoIn composing Profitably Healthy Companies, Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley have done the impossible—they’ve produced a textbook on Organization Development that is genuinely interesting to read and useful to practitioners to boot! These authors, proven giants in the field of organization development, have brought their best interpretive work into this book. Burke and O’Malley’s love for teaching is evident in the pages of this book, heart and soul. As I read the book, I found myself learning so much new content that I kept texting my colleagues, “did you know this?” I predict that Profitably Healthy Companies will be a modern OD classic, on all our shelves going forward. Aside from being well organized and useful, Profitably Healthy Companies is perhaps the most well-written textbook I’ve seen. Brilliant piece of work. -- Thomas A. Kolditz, founding director, Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, and former head of Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, West PointNo one knows the contemporary management literature better than Michael O’Malley and no one has been on the frontiers of scholarship and practice in organizational development longer than Warner Burke. Thus it was impossible that when these two united, they would create anything but a masterpiece of fresh, practical thought anchored in smart analysis. However, they went far further than providing a “new & improved’ OD book. They knew what was missing and filled the gap. The existing best practice in OD was heavily anchored in outside interventions parachuting into the firm to catalyze change – and then leave. Alas, too many great innovations ran their course and then fizzled often amidst a leadership succession. Profitably Healthy Companies shows how the capacity to learn, grow, change, and evolve must be in the DNA of enterprise. Through examples, research citations, and clear steps, this book provides the blueprint for internalization of continual leading through structures and processes. Thus, instead of hit & run engagements, skill at OD become a vital capacity of the enterprise to read and respond to its changing strategic context regardless whom is the boss. -- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of ManagementWhat makes this book a gem is the easily accessible way in which theory is presented, the extensive examples from a variety of companies, and the clarity of the writing. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars, practitioners, and students. -- John L. Bennett, Professor, Director of Graduate Programs, and Wayland H. Cato, Jr. Chair of Leadership, Queens University of CharlotteTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Organization Development Basics2. Organize for Change3. Anticipate the Future4. Encourage Cooperation5. Remain Flexible6. Create Distinctive Spacesseven7. Diversify and Inclusify the Workforce8. Promote Personal Growth9. Empower People10. Reward High Performers11. Foster a Leadership CultureNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTakes the reader on a journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' this title explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction part 1 The Agency of DisplayObjects of Ethnography Exhibiting Jews part 2 A Second Life as HeritageDestination Museum Ellis Island Plimoth Plantation part 3 Undoing the EthnographicConfusing Pleasures Secrets of Encounter part 4 Circulating ValueDisputing Taste Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFounded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I The Luxembourg Gallery, I750-79 2 D' Angiviller's Louvre Project 3 The Revolutionary Louvre 4 The Musee Central des Arts 5 Alexandre Lenoir and the Museum of French Monuments Conclusion Appendix I Arrangement of Paintings in the Luxembourg Gallery, I750 Appendix II D' Angiviller's Grands Hommes of France, by Salon Appendix III Partial Reconstruction of the Hanging Scheme at the Musee Central des Arts in I797-8 Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTakes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism.Trade Review"An illuminating study that will be of interest to academics and museum professionals working in the field today." Publishers Weekly "Ambitious, well-written, and significant." Library Journal "Experimental - interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, self-critical, heterodox - approaches to art will have to be tried out if an audience for history, which is only as alive as our sense of investment in it, is not to be lost. (For a comparative look at some recent methods, I recommend Peggy Levitt's 'Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display,'" -- Holland Cotter New York Times "Artifacts and Allegiances is a compelling narrative whose insight and passion is well-supported by rich and rigorous sociological analysis, ultimately offering a welcome contribution to scholars across disciplines interested in museums, global politics, and the culture of place." SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Bog and the Beast: The View of the Nation and the World from Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg 2. The Legislator and the Priest: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Boston and New York 3. Arabia and the East: How Singapore and Doha Display the Nation and the World Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Plates Image Credits Index

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century “salvage anthropology” preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable to researchers and the public. But many of these objects were stolen, and for decades exhibited as proof of cultural evolution. Samuel Redman details the tangled history and explores how we might contend with such collections today.Trade ReviewA must-read for anyone seeking to confront racist worldviews and make the world a better place for all. -- Paulette Steeves * Science *Redman tells the grim story of decades-long elite capture of Native cultures, while the US government and expansionist industries gained control of lands and waters from sea to sea. Decolonization requires recognition of the colonization process, and Redman’s book is a landmark contribution to that effort. -- Barbara Miller * American Anthropologist *A sweeping overview of the history and continued legacy of salvage anthropology in the United States…Redman’s work connects the complex histories of these practices to their ongoing implications for museums today, offering a major contribution to how we recognize their legacies for today’s efforts to decolonize collections, repatriate objects, and forge community partnerships. -- Reed Gochberg * American Nineteenth Century History *Prophets and Ghosts is a rich and eye-opening book, and Redman does not shy away from taking a hard look at the troubled and troubling legacy of salvage anthropology. It’s deeply researched, beautifully written—a real pleasure to read. -- Lukas Rieppel * New Books Network *Redman nuances the history of salvage anthropology…[and] recounts the stories of individual collectors, humanizing these anthropologists, Indian agents, missionaries, and Native people, while stressing the seriousness and urgency of their often-obsessive collecting practices. -- Klinton Burgio-Ericson * Journal of Anthropological Research *Essential…For any museum professional or anthropologist hoping to build an ethical and progress-oriented career, Prophets and Ghosts is an excellent guide to recognizing and reconciling with salvage anthropology. -- Sara Polk * Museum Studies Blog *An engaging account of the development of salvage anthropology in the United States during the nineteenth century…[Redman] does not shy away from the darker side of early acquisitions of Indigenous people’s culture in American museums. -- Crystal McColl * Fwd: Museums Journal *Illuminating…Prophets and Ghosts would be a suitable introduction for many, and any of the individual chapters would provide a good background of where salvage anthropology came from…and where it could go. -- Jaime M. N. Lavallee * Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association *Prophets and Ghosts is [Redman’s] latest work to examine the intersection between the history of museums and the rise of anthropology as a discipline…He argues that even with the problems inherent in early museums’ efforts to understand race and ‘primitive’ civilizations, their attempts ultimately produced some unexpected and surprising results. -- Robert Cassanello * Journal of American History *Redman has not only become anthropology’s leading historian but also its conscience. Through methodical research and insightful analysis, Prophets and Ghosts provides a window into the motives and practices of ‘salvaging’ cultures often assumed to be on the precipice of destruction. It reveals all the disciplinary successes and failures—and moral contradictions and paradoxes—in this moment that laid the groundwork for how the world thinks of cultures and Indigenous peoples. This is a history that is still resonant today. -- Chip Colwell, author of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s CultureAn original, masterful work on a rich and important topic. Redman looks at the idea of salvage as both preservation and as part of a larger cultural phenomenon—the establishment of a diverse cultural history for the nation—with all the implications this had for the Indigenous peoples being studied and ‘saved.’ -- Nancy J. Parezo, coauthor of Anthropology Goes to the Fair: The 1904 Louisiana Purchase ExpositionRedman interrogates the origins of salvage anthropology by delving into the resonance of encounters and collections that, reflecting an emphasis on preservation at all costs, still haunt us today. He effectively exposes the entanglements among nationalistic impulses, colonial nostalgia, and assimilationist policies that shaped museum representations of the Indigenous well into the mid-twentieth century. -- Margaret M. Bruchac, author of Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American AnthropologistsThis book is a gem! Redman traces the nineteenth-century salvage anthropology movement in the United States, designed to preserve the material culture of Native Americans portrayed on the verge of extinction. Especially important are the many negative consequences of this movement, which last to this day. -- Laura Nader, author of Laura Nader: Letters to and from an AnthropologistThe ‘salvage’ of all things Indian was driven by scientific curiosity, but Redman shows how that curiosity was also driven by an insatiable obsession with objects rather than the people who produced them. This book provides a broad, often troubling, picture behind the impetus to collect everything before the Indians ‘vanished.’ -- Joe Watkins, author of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific PracticeRedman offers an impressive exploration of the strange history of salvage anthropology and its efforts to document Native cultures before their presumed disappearance before the forward march of history. With its detailed archival findings, clear writing, and comprehensive analysis, Prophets and Ghosts is a fine piece of scholarship. -- Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant examination of the museum’s role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents.Trade ReviewViviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone have created, for the first time ever, a book that looks at the relationship between museums and the concept of historical consciousness. In doing so, they are pioneering both museological and historical literature, and greatly contributing to an under-researched field. -- Cintia Velázquez Marroni * Museum Management and Curatorship *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Perspectives on Museums and Historical Consciousness in Canada / Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra LivingstonePart 1: Programming Historical Consciousness2 The Royal Ontario Museum, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Critical Public Engagement / Susan Ashley3 The Voices of the Canoe Project: Weaving Together Indigenous and Western Historical Knowledge Traditions / Jill Baird and Damara Jacobs-Morris4 The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum: A Model Institution / Lianne McTavish5 Public Pedagogy and the Museum: The Canadian Museum of Immigration at 21, for Example / Brenda TrofanenkoPart 2: Measuring Historical Consciousness6 Changing Views? Emotional Intelligence, Registers of Engagement, and the Museum Visit / Laurajane Smith7 Using Museum Resources and Mobile Technologies to Develop Teens’ Historical Thinking: Formative Evaluation of an Innovative Educational Set-up / Marie-Claude Larouche8 Museums as In-Between Institutions: Can They Be Trusted? / Lon Dubinsky and Del Muise9 The Concept of Historical Consciousness Applied to Museums: A Case Study of the Exhibition People of Québec ... Then and Now / Pierre-Luc Collin, Claire Cousson, and Lucie DaignaultPart 3: Instrumentalizing Historical Consciousness10 Controversy as Catalyst: Administrative Framing, Public Perception, and the Late-Twentieth-Century Exhibitionary Complex in Canada / Phaedra Livingstone11 The Gift of Historical Consciousness: Museums, Art, and Poverty / Simon Knell12 Museums and the Responsibility Gap / Robert R. Janes13 Out of the Box and Into the Fold: Museums, Human Rights, and Changing Pedagogical Practices / Jennifer Carter14 Epilogue: The Blossoming of Canadian Museology and Historical Consciousness / Phaedra Livingstone and Viviane GosselinIndex

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating look at Canada’s living history museums – pioneer villages and old forts where actors recreate the past – shows how they reveal as much about Canadian post-war interests as they do about settler history.Trade ReviewGordon’s research is meticulous and his writing exceptionally coherent. Time Travel is an excellent study of how priorities and preoccupations guide historical interpretation, and an important addition to the study of Canada’s heritage industry. -- Ryan Porter * Canadian Literature, 236 *... Gordon pulls together a staggering amount of materials to provide a compelling glimpse into the history of living history. He illustrates the contradictions that abound—the tensions between scholarship and entertainment; between National and multicultural remembrance; between the colliding narratives of settler and Indigenous histories. There is more to be written on this story, and Gordon has made a significant contribution to this area of historical scholarship. Time Travel is a useful roadmap that scholars might utilize to explore the fascinating contradictions and interplay between narrative, history and authenticity, so exemplified in the living history museum. -- Sean MacPherson * BC Studies *As a comprehensive history of public history in Canada, Time Travel is a welcome text. … Time Travel does a wonderful job of connecting experiments in living history with that national past. -- Claire Campbell, Bucknell University * Historical Studies in Education *Time Travel is an important book that provides keen insights in the understanding of the emergence of living history museums in mid-twentieth century Canada… In a masterful way, Gordon guides the reader through some of the intellectual debates that shaped the making of the living history museum movement. -- Review by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Michigan State University Museum * Great Plains Quarterly 38.4 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Living History Time MachinesPart 1: Foundations1 History on Display2 The Foundations of Living History in Canada3 Tourism and HistoryPart 2: Structures4 Pioneer Days5 A Sense of the Past6 Louisbourg and the Quest for AuthenticityPart 3: Connections7 Fur and Gold8 The Great Tradition of Western Empire9 The Spirit of B & B10 People and Place11 Genuine IndiansConclusion: The Limits of Time TravelNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation.Trade ReviewExhibiting Nation is an accessible book that contextualizes prominent Canadian institutions within the established study of museology, making it an academic contribution that has been long overdue. Its case study approach will be valuable to both curators and academics[...] -- Cody Groat * The Canadian Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface: A Sense of DiscomfortPart 1: Introduction1 Multicultural Nationalism and the Power of Metaphor2 Museums, Discipline, and DialoguePart 2: Feast3 The Limits of Unity in Diversity4 The Royal BC Museum’s Modern History GalleriesPart 3: Spectacle5 The Limits of Equality and Recognition6 The Royal Alberta Museum’s Cultural Communities ProgramPart 4: Border7 The Limits of Universalism and Diversity8 The Royal Ontario Museum’s World Cultures GalleriesEpilogue: Working with the ContradictionsNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThe author researched ten museums founded prior to 1870, using primary sources. Those chosen comprised a geographically diverse sample of pre-1870 American museums and covered a range of disciplines, among them art, history, and natural science.Trade Review[Orosz's] great virtue is immersion in the records of 11 important 18th and 19th century institutions from the various Peale museums to the Wadsworth Atheneum, the academy of Natural Sciences, and the Smithsonian...[and] his depiction of a complex and contested cultural history marked both by periods of reaction and democratic faith. - Museum News

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Book SynopsisMuseums worldwide face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This manual focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the text, along with an index with terms linked to the text.

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Book SynopsisMuseums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space.Trade Review"[Barrett]constructs a framework within which it is possible to both confront some startling realities about the gap between museums' purported ‘public' role and their efficacy and relevance in the ‘public sphere', and consider initiatives that might rectify this situation." (Visitor Studies Journal, 9 March 2012) Table of ContentsList of Images vii Introduction 1 1 The Public Sphere 15 2 Historical Discourses of the Museum 45 3 The Museum as Public Space 81 4 Audience, Community, and Public 118 5 The Museum as Public Intellectual 143 Conclusion 164 References 175 Acknowledgments 191 Index 193

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Book SynopsisWritten by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider's guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider's view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a refreshing and unique account of the reality of the workings of museum life The material has been successfully tested in a course that the author has taught for 14 years Miller has extensive experience at all levels of museum work, from painting walls for exhibitions to museum directorship Clearly and engagingly written, the book covers all the component parts and various disciplines of museum operations, and opinions and perspectives are drawn from a deep knowledge of the field Includes useful pedagogical material, including questions, discussion topics, and a range of anecdotes Table of ContentsForeword vii Introduction 1 1 What is a Museum? 5 2 Museum Governance 15 3 Museum Directing 29 4 Curating=Connoisseurship=Collecting 45 5 Managing in Museums 65 6 Audience: A Matter of Definition 109 7 Fundraising 117 8 Collection Management 131 9 Museum Education 139 10 Numbers 145 11 Conservation: The Preservation Imperative 155 12 Exhibitions: Show and Tell 167 13 Maintenance and Security 183 14 Museums and the Media 201 15 Architecture 207 16 Volunteers 221 17 Behavior 227 18 Museum Ethics 241 19 What’s Next for Museums? 255 Appendix I: A Course Final 263 Index 267

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Book SynopsisNew Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition. Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use. Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews. Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice. Covers a range of museums around the world: from art to history, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses, cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that use the conventions of the museum. Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, and from a variety of fields that inform cultural studies. Trade Review“This is an ambitious book, setting out as it does to explore the gamut of ‘new’ museum theory and practice. The essays in this book are diverse, but together they suggest virtually all of the recent major intellectual and political shifts within the museum world.” (Museum Anthropology, Summer 2008) “This book is inspiring and ... offers an excellent vision of why and how the museum will matter more in the 21st century.” (Muse)Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Preface: How to Use this Book x Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1Janet Marstine Part I Defining New Museum Theory 37 A Surveys and Groundwork 39 1 Editor’s Introduction 41 THE ARCHITECTURE IS THE MUSEUM 41Michaela Giebelhausen Questions for Discussion 60 2 Editor’s Introduction 64 FEMINIST CURATORIAL STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES SINCE THE 1970s 65Katy Deepwell Questions for Discussion 80 3 Editor’s Introduction 85 NEW ART, NEW CHALLENGES: THE CHANGING FACE OF CONSERVATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 86Rachel Barker and Patricia Smithen Questions for Discussion 103 B Case Studies in Contemporary Practice 107 4 Editor’s Introduction 109 HOW WE STUDY HISTORY MUSEUMS: OR CULTURAL STUDIES AT MONTICELLO 109Eric Gable Questions for Discussion 126 5 Editor’s Introduction 129 SPECTACLE AND DEMOCRACY: EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT AS A POST-MUSEUM 130Chris Bruce Questions for Discussion 149 6 Editor’s Introduction 152 REVEALING AND CONCEALING: MUSEUMS, OBJECTS, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA 153Moira G. Simpson Questions for Discussion 174 7 Editor’s Introduction 178 RESTRUCTURING SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUMS: REALITY AND RHETORIC WITHIN CAPE TOWN 179Julie L. McGee Questions for Discussion 196 Part II Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice 201 8 Editor’s Introduction 203 THE CRITICAL MUSEUM VISITOR 203Margaret Lindauer Questions for Discussion 223 9 Editor’s Introduction 226 VISITING THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: ART AND EXPERIENCE ONLINE 226Lianne McTavish Questions for Discussion 244 10 Editor’s Introduction 247 REFRAMING STUDIO ART PRODUCTION AND CRITIQUE 248Helen Klebesadel Questions for Discussion 263 11 Editor’s Introduction 266 THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND GALLERY: A SITE FOR INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE AND A FOCUS OF THE CURRICULUM 267Lyndel King and Janet Marstine Questions for Discussion 288 12 Editor’s Introduction 292 MUSEUM ARCHIVES AS RESOURCES FOR SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY 293Lois Marie Fink Questions for Discussion 306 Bibliography 308 Index 322

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Book SynopsisNew Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition. Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use. Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews. Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice. Covers a range of museums around the world: from art to history, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses, cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that use the conventions of the museum. Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, and from a variety of fields that inform cultural studies. Trade Review“This book offers a fresh approach to teaching museum studies – combining a synoptic view of prevailing museum theories with pragmatic end of chapter review questions.” -- Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, New York University “An excellent book for students of museums. In developing a creative and effective analytical toolkit for critical museum visitors, this original volume will also prove essential for aspiring museum professionals.” -- Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of LeicesterTable of ContentsList of Figures viii Preface: How to Use this Book x Acknowledgments xii Introduction 1Janet Marstine Part I Defining New Museum Theory 37 A Surveys and Groundwork 39 1 Editor’s Introduction 41 THE ARCHITECTURE IS THE MUSEUM 41Michaela Giebelhausen Questions for Discussion 60 2 Editor’s Introduction 64 FEMINIST CURATORIAL STRATEGIES AND PRACTICES SINCE THE 1970s 65Katy Deepwell Questions for Discussion 80 3 Editor’s Introduction 85 NEW ART, NEW CHALLENGES: THE CHANGING FACE OF CONSERVATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 86Rachel Barker and Patricia Smithen Questions for Discussion 103 B Case Studies in Contemporary Practice 107 4 Editor’s Introduction 109 HOW WE STUDY HISTORY MUSEUMS: OR CULTURAL STUDIES AT MONTICELLO 109Eric Gable Questions for Discussion 126 5 Editor’s Introduction 129 SPECTACLE AND DEMOCRACY: EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT AS A POST-MUSEUM 130Chris Bruce Questions for Discussion 149 6 Editor’s Introduction 152 REVEALING AND CONCEALING: MUSEUMS, OBJECTS, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA 153Moira G. Simpson Questions for Discussion 174 7 Editor’s Introduction 178 RESTRUCTURING SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUMS: REALITY AND RHETORIC WITHIN CAPE TOWN 179Julie L. McGee Questions for Discussion 196 Part II Looking to the Future: Theory into Practice 201 8 Editor’s Introduction 203 THE CRITICAL MUSEUM VISITOR 203Margaret Lindauer Questions for Discussion 223 9 Editor’s Introduction 226 VISITING THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM: ART AND EXPERIENCE ONLINE 226Lianne McTavish Questions for Discussion 244 10 Editor’s Introduction 247 REFRAMING STUDIO ART PRODUCTION AND CRITIQUE 248Helen Klebesadel Questions for Discussion 263 11 Editor’s Introduction 266 THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND GALLERY: A SITE FOR INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE AND A FOCUS OF THE CURRICULUM 267Lyndel King and Janet Marstine Questions for Discussion 288 12 Editor’s Introduction 292 MUSEUM ARCHIVES AS RESOURCES FOR SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY 293Lois Marie Fink Questions for Discussion 306 Bibliography 308 Index 322

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Book SynopsisMuseums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space.Trade Review"[Barrett]constructs a framework within which it is possible to both confront some startling realities about the gap between museums' purported ‘public' role and their efficacy and relevance in the ‘public sphere', and consider initiatives that might rectify this situation." (Visitor Studies Journal, 9 March 2012) Table of ContentsList of Images vii Introduction 1 1 The Public Sphere 15 2 Historical Discourses of the Museum 45 3 The Museum as Public Space 81 4 Audience, Community, and Public 118 5 The Museum as Public Intellectual 143 Conclusion 164 References 175 Acknowledgments 191 Index 193

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Book SynopsisWith a diverse range of case studies, and chapters co-written between academics and community partners, this book shows that co-produced research can be an empowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.Trade Review"This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies." Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the SouthTable of ContentsIntroduction: Heritage as community research ~ Jo Vergunst and Helen Graham; Part one: Ways of knowing; Chapter one: Legacy and lavender: community heritage and the arts ~ Helen Smith and Mark Hope; Chapter two: Co-writing about co-producing musical heritage: what happens when musicians and academics work together? ~ John Ball, Tony Bowring, Fay Hield and Kate Pahl; Chapter three: Visibly authentic: images of Romani people from 19th-century culture to the digital age ~ Jodie Matthews; Chapter four: Digital building heritage ~ Nick Higgett and Jenny Wilkinson; Chapter five: Shaping heritage in the landscape amongst communities past and present ~ Jo Vergunst, Elizabeth Curtis, Neil Curtis, Jeff Oliver and Colin Shepherd; Part two: Heritage as action; Chapter six: CAER heritage: legacies of co-produced research ~ Oliver Davis, Dave Horton, Helen McCarthy and Dave Wyatt; Chapter seven: Do-It-Yourself heritage: Heritage-as-a-process (designing for the Stoke ‘ping’) ~ Karen Brookfield, Danny Callaghan and Helen Graham with members of the Ceramic City Stories team: Jayne Fair, Jan Roberts and Phil Rowley; Chapter eight: From researching heritage to action heritage ~ Kimberley Marwood, Esme Cleall, Vicky Crewe, David Forrest, Toby Pillatt, Gemma Thorpe and Robert Johnston; Chapter nine: Co-productive research in a primary school environment: un-earthing the past of Keig ~ Elizabeth Curtis, Jane Murison and Colin Shepherd; Conclusion: Co-producing futures: directions for community heritage as research ~ Helen Graham, Jo Vergunst and Elizabeth Curtis.

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Book SynopsisIn Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China''s Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony. Assembling each chapter like a memorial exhibit, Li explores how corporeal traces, archival documents, camera images, and material relics serve as commemorative media. Prison writings and police files reveal the infrastructure of state surveillance and testify to revolutionary ideals and violence, victimhood and complicity. Photojournalism from the Great Leap Forward and documentaries from the Cultural Revolution promoted faith in communist miracles while excluding darker realities, whereas Mao memorabilia collections, factory ruins, and memorials at trauma Trade Review“The memory palaces of contemporary China are akin to a necropolis, one built atop a storied tenement. Within those virtual walls lost souls, dead dreams, frustrated ambitions, and reanimated specters continuously jostle; variously they haunt the living. Jie Li is a learned docent with an assured demeanor who guides us through the hidden passages and dark corridors of that labyrinthine structure with the judicious balance of a historian and the craft of a curator. Her navigation also confronts us with an imagined future in which the contentious possibilities and conflicted potentials of the past will inevitably be visited, and revisited, as China continues its titanic, two-century-long quest on the path to modernity.” -- Geremie R. Barmé, editor of * China Heritage *“Utopian Ruins presents a creative and nuanced approach to memories of the Maoist era and their various mediations, bringing together a remarkably diverse set of archives, including police dossiers, photography, films, and physical spaces. The questions that Jie Li raises are as vital for global history as they are for China, since socialism's demise leaves many around the world puzzled about the legacies of that period, how to remember them, and what to build in their place.” -- Lisa Rofel, coauthor of * Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion *“This is a wonderful and important book. Important not only because of its nuanced readings of Mao era artifacts and their post-Mao remediation, but because it points in practical ways to possibilities for remembering the Maoist past.” -- Kirk A. Denton * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *“Utopian Ruins is an exceptional addition to the ever-growing scholarship on memory of and in the People’s Republic of China.... Jie Li creates space for a multivocality of voices in a thought-provoking study that is as impressive in scope as it is deep in meaning.” -- Damian Mandzunowski * PRC History Review *“Utopian Ruins presents multilayered, pluralistic interpretations and representations of the Mao era.... This book is beautifully written and rich with sophisticated analysis.” -- Di Luo * Twentieth-Century China *“Both for its poignant insights and blended methodologies and for its get-down-on-one’s-knees search-and-rescue operations, Utopian Ruins will be treasured by scholars and lay readers alike.” -- Haiyan Lee * Journal of Asian Studies *“Jie Li shows that a lively engagement with critical theory need not be either obfuscating or abstract. She hones in on the productive questions of knowledge production, meaning making, and power, drawing from notable theorists and previous studies to illuminate and make comparable her conclusions.” -- Timothy Cheek * American Historical Review *“Jie Li specializes in the media and literature of Mao-era China, and in this book each of the first five chapters easily stand alone as academic studies of prison writings, dossiers, films, and photographs. Bound together they form an insightful . . . commentary on the history and legacy of the Mao era. -- James Flath * The Public Historian *“Utopian Ruins exemplifies a model of scholarship that seamlessly interconnects solid archival digging, informed theoretical guidance, and holistic yet nuanced in-depth analysis. . . . As a courageous pioneering act of resisting the massive amnesia of insurmountable loss throughout the Mao era, Utopian Ruins paves a new direction for curators to design their future exhibitions of what Mao’s China was like.” -- Enhua Zhang * Prism *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Mediating Memories of the Mao Era 1 1. Blood Testament 25 2. Surveillance Files 68 3. Utopian Photographs 100 4. Foreign Lenses 150 5. Factory Rubble 192 6. Museums and Memorials 227 Epilogue. Notes for Future Curators 261 Notes 277 Bibliography 321 Index

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Book SynopsisIn Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China''s Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony. Assembling each chapter like a memorial exhibit, Li explores how corporeal traces, archival documents, camera images, and material relics serve as commemorative media. Prison writings and police files reveal the infrastructure of state surveillance and testify to revolutionary ideals and violence, victimhood and complicity. Photojournalism from the Great Leap Forward and documentaries from the Cultural Revolution promoted faith in communist miracles while excluding darker realities, whereas Mao memorabilia collections, factory ruins, and memorials at trauma Trade Review“The memory palaces of contemporary China are akin to a necropolis, one built atop a storied tenement. Within those virtual walls lost souls, dead dreams, frustrated ambitions, and reanimated specters continuously jostle; variously they haunt the living. Jie Li is a learned docent with an assured demeanor who guides us through the hidden passages and dark corridors of that labyrinthine structure with the judicious balance of a historian and the craft of a curator. Her navigation also confronts us with an imagined future in which the contentious possibilities and conflicted potentials of the past will inevitably be visited, and revisited, as China continues its titanic, two-century-long quest on the path to modernity.” -- Geremie R. Barmé, editor of * China Heritage *“Utopian Ruins presents a creative and nuanced approach to memories of the Maoist era and their various mediations, bringing together a remarkably diverse set of archives, including police dossiers, photography, films, and physical spaces. The questions that Jie Li raises are as vital for global history as they are for China, since socialism's demise leaves many around the world puzzled about the legacies of that period, how to remember them, and what to build in their place.” -- Lisa Rofel, coauthor of * Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion *“This is a wonderful and important book. Important not only because of its nuanced readings of Mao era artifacts and their post-Mao remediation, but because it points in practical ways to possibilities for remembering the Maoist past.” -- Kirk A. Denton * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *“Utopian Ruins is an exceptional addition to the ever-growing scholarship on memory of and in the People’s Republic of China.... Jie Li creates space for a multivocality of voices in a thought-provoking study that is as impressive in scope as it is deep in meaning.” -- Damian Mandzunowski * PRC History Review *“Utopian Ruins presents multilayered, pluralistic interpretations and representations of the Mao era.... This book is beautifully written and rich with sophisticated analysis.” -- Di Luo * Twentieth-Century China *“Both for its poignant insights and blended methodologies and for its get-down-on-one’s-knees search-and-rescue operations, Utopian Ruins will be treasured by scholars and lay readers alike.” -- Haiyan Lee * Journal of Asian Studies *“Jie Li shows that a lively engagement with critical theory need not be either obfuscating or abstract. She hones in on the productive questions of knowledge production, meaning making, and power, drawing from notable theorists and previous studies to illuminate and make comparable her conclusions.” -- Timothy Cheek * American Historical Review *“Jie Li specializes in the media and literature of Mao-era China, and in this book each of the first five chapters easily stand alone as academic studies of prison writings, dossiers, films, and photographs. Bound together they form an insightful . . . commentary on the history and legacy of the Mao era. -- James Flath * The Public Historian *“Utopian Ruins exemplifies a model of scholarship that seamlessly interconnects solid archival digging, informed theoretical guidance, and holistic yet nuanced in-depth analysis. . . . As a courageous pioneering act of resisting the massive amnesia of insurmountable loss throughout the Mao era, Utopian Ruins paves a new direction for curators to design their future exhibitions of what Mao’s China was like.” -- Enhua Zhang * Prism *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Mediating Memories of the Mao Era 1 1. Blood Testament 25 2. Surveillance Files 68 3. Utopian Photographs 100 4. Foreign Lenses 150 5. Factory Rubble 192 6. Museums and Memorials 227 Epilogue. Notes for Future Curators 261 Notes 277 Bibliography 321 Index

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Book SynopsisHome to the original Fulton Fish Market and then the South Street Seaport Museum, it is one of the last neighborhoods of late 18th- and early 19th-century New York City not to be destroyed by urban development. This book tells the story, from the 1960s to the present, of the South Street Seaport District of Lower Manhattan.Trade Review"South Street Seaport Museum has lived as many lives as the proverbial cat, but it was born feral and has remained so to this day. James Lindgren . . . tracks the promise of what began in the 1960s as a grassroots movement to 1) preserve an evocative and colorful remnant of nineteenth-century New York, 2) let troubled young people use seafaring experiences to rebuild their lives. Lindgren succeeds, here as elsewhere, in evoking the dreams and visions of the organizers, while also making clear the forces arrayed against them" * H- Pennsylvania *"Lindgren does not close the door on the museums future but seems to suggest avenues by which it could still prosper. Its a tale of woe, of intrigue, of manipulative power brokers and competing ideologies, but it is definitely a necessary read for anyone interested in the complex cultural history and politics of New York." * Winterthur Portfolio *"It shouldbe required reading for everyonepoliticians, preservationists, developers, community members, journalists, and museum administratorsinvolved in rethinking how South Street Seaport will be remade in years to come." * The Journal of American History *"Preserving South Street Seaportends on a bittersweet note: the district beautifully restored, but the museum barely noticeable, and the ships under constant threat of being sold off. It is precisely this abrupt, incomplete, and depressing ending that makes this book an active part of the preservation project. It becomes a call to arms, challenging the reader to actively participate in the Seaports existence and to provide a more satisfying conclusion for the story of the South Street Seaport." * Journal of Folklore Research *"The author has done exhaustive research in assembling factual evidence of what went wrong . . . . This cautionary tale informs readers how not to run a museum and is recommended for museum educators, historical preservationists, and New York City history buffs." * Library Journal *"Preserving South Street Seaport, by James M. Lindgren, is the first history of this district - the city's top destination for visitors in the late 1980s - and its maritime museum . . . Lindgren chronicles the battles between preservationists and developers as well as how the tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy crushed the area's renewed promise. In a work that features more than 40 archival and contemporary black-and-white photographs, Lindgren reveals the challenges of privatizing urban renewal while also providing a narrative of how a decrepit piece of waterfront rose to become, for a time, a go-to spot for New Yorkers and tourists alike." * NYU Research Digest *"Most New Yorkers think of South Street Seaport as only a touristy shopping mall. But the real South Street Seaport is a historic district with three piers and 11 blocks surrounded by Manhattan's skyscrapers. It's a treasure we must protect." * New York Post *"Since 1997, SUNY professor James M. Lindgren has been researching the history of the South Street Seaport Historic District, the museum that championed its preservation and became its steward, and the complicated relationships that eventually emerged between that organization, the City of New York, the citys economic development offices, and the & Festival Marketplace that was brought to the district in 1983. . . . This timely book will be sure to prove essential as we all work to unravel the Seaports tangled past and set it back on the right path." * New Amsterdam Public Market Association *"The details are overwhelming and fascinating, providing readers a play-by-play rendering of negotiations with politicians, banks, and developers, as well as the often heart-breaking process of acquiring the ships and other artifacts that constitute the Seaport Museum. This eminently readable book, filled with revealing anecdotes, is a red flag to all preservationists aiming to partner with commercial interests. Lindgren demonstrates all too clearly the difficulties of achieving economic viability as a cultural and educational institution, and pointedly questions the lack of sustained support for what could be one of the most important maritime museums. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "Salvation on the East River" 1 "Eloquent Reminders of Sailing and Shipbuilding" 2 "The Kind of Civilized Vision That New Yorkers Are Not Supposed to Have" 3 "Ships, the Heart of the Story" 4 "Look at Our Waterfront! Just Look" 5 "A Million People Came Away Better Human Beings" 6 "Shopping Is the Chief Cultural Activity in the United States" 7 "They Tore Down Paradise, and Put Up a Shopping Mall" 8 "The Museum Was Intellectually and Financially Bankrupt" 9 "It's Tough When You Have a Museum in a Mall" 10 "A Ship Is a Hole in the Water into Which You Pour Money" 11 "Sometimes You Just Can't Get a Break" Conclusion: "Nobody Knows That We're Here"Notes Index About the Author

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Book Synopsis Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM).The only archaeology museum that is part of an American high school, it also did cutting-edge research from the 1930s through the 1970s, ultimately returning to its core mission of teaching and learning in the twenty-first century. Essays explore the early history and notable contributions of the museum’s directors and curators, including a tour de force chapter by James Richardson and J. M. Adovasio that interweaves the history of research at the museum with the intriguing story of the peopling of the Americas.Other chapters tackle the challenges of the 1990s, including shrinking financial resources, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and relationships with American Indian tribes, and the need to revisit the original missTrade Review“The Robert S. Peabody Museum, Phillips Academy, and its faculty, students, and affiliates have played important roles in the history of Americanist archaeology for a century. The excellent essays in this volume chronicle the fluctuating history of the institution as a museum, science center, and teaching institution.”—Don D. Fowler, Mamie Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and past president of the Society for American Archaeology “Behold, dear reader! You hold the rarest of literary creatures—an honest institutional historiography. This is a remarkable history of a history, a bold narrative that critically engages authentic sources and key particulars about the Robert S. Peabody Museum, synthesized as they should be, warts and all.”—David Hurst Thomas, curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History “This is an excellent book on the history not only of one of the treasured institutions of archaeology in the United States but of the many colorful people who worked there. Their collective legacy in archaeology is almost unparalleled. Those of us who are interested in the history of American archaeology must have this book on our shelves.”—Michael J. O’Brien, provost at Texas A&M University–San Antonio Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction: Present and Past at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology Malinda Stafford Blustain and Ryan Wheeler 1. A Biographical History of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology Nathan D. Hamilton and Eugene C. Winter Jr. 2. A History of Research: Focusing on the Peopling of the Americas James B. Richardson III and James M. Adovasio 3. A.V. Kidder, Pecos Pueblo, and the Robert S. Peabody Museum: A Continuing Legacy Linda S. Cordell 4. Laying the Foundations for Northeastern North American Archaeology Brian S. Robinson 5. Recent Research at Maine Sites Nathan D. Hamilton and Donald A. Slater 6. A Retrospective Interpretation of the Origins of American Agriculture Mary Eubanks 7. Trials and Redemption at the Peabody Museum Malinda Stafford Blustain 8. Negotiating NAGPRA: Rediscovering the Human Side of Science James W. Bradley 9 . Pecos Pathways: A Model for Lasting Partnerships Lindsay Randall and Christopher Toya 10. Teaching Science at the Peabody Museum Jeremiah Hagler 11. Experiential Learning and the New Peabody Museum Donald A. Slater and Nathan D. Hamilton 12. Reflections and Stories Using Archaeology as a Basis for Learning: How Archaeology Can Teach Almost Anything! Margaret Conkey Perspectives from Indian Country Hillary Abé The Piette Program in France Claire Gallou Just Down the Road: A Former Student’s Perspective on the Peabody Museum and Its Approach to Secondary Education Kristi Gilleon From Research to Education: The Peabody-Phillips Academy Connection Rebecca Miller Sykes Open Doors: A Retrospective on the Robert S. Peabody Museum Abigail Seldin List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising social haunting': the ways in which the social forms, figures, phantasms and ghosts of the past become present to us time and time again. Examining the relationship between historical practices such as archaeology and archival work in order to think about how the social landscape is reinvented with reference to the ghosts of the past, the author explores the literary and historical status and accounts of the ghost, not for what they might tell us about these figures, but for their significance for our, constantly re-invented, re-vivified, re-ghosted social world. With chapters on haunted houses and castles, slave ghosts, the haunting airs of music, the prehistoric origin of spirits, Marxist spectres, Freudian revenants, and the ghosts in the machine, Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory adopts multi-disciplinary methods for understanding the Trade Review'This wide-ranging study of haunting as a social practice carefully excavates and illuminates the dazzling array of literal and metaphorical landscapes - from the prehistoric to the (post)colonial and from the musical to the digital - in which ghosts are sedimented, ready to re-emerge as social forces in the present.' - Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Hudson sets out to write a sociology of haunting, to delineate the ‘social power of the ghost’. Using an associative logic that glides like a spectre through disciplinary boundaries, this book puts Marx, Brecht, Rilke and David Mitchell together, teases ghost stories from ancient landscapes and haunted houses, and even gets grumpy materialist Theodor Adorno together with wide-eyed spiritualist Sir Oliver Lodge to meditate on the capacious possibilities bound up with ideas of social haunting. An absorbing, challenging read.' - Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck University of London, U.K"Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory offers wide-ranging sociological analysis of ghosts and the places in which they appear. Unlike other volumes specializing in literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic reflections on ghosts, Hudson links their ephemeral appearance with rootedness in the social context of landscapes. […] Hudson mirrors the difficulties that the living face in trying to grasp and describe the social power of ghosts. The experience of being haunted by ghosts in certain places is difficult to pin down. Hudson is to be commended for an original, interdisciplinary analysis of social ghosts and landscapes that will be of interest to readers in sociology, memory studies, philosophy, cultural studies and literature." – Siobhan Kattago, Memory Studies'This wide-ranging study of haunting as a social practice carefully excavates and illuminates the dazzling array of literal and metaphorical landscapes – from the prehistoric to the (post)colonial and from the musical to the digital – in which ghosts are sedimented, ready to re-emerge as social forces in the present.' - Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Hudson sets out to write a sociology of haunting, to delineate the "social power of the ghost". Using an associative logic that glides like a spectre through disciplinary boundaries, this book puts Marx, Brecht, Rilke and David Mitchell together, teases ghost stories from ancient landscapes and haunted houses, and even gets grumpy materialist Theodor Adorno together with wide-eyed spiritualist Sir Oliver Lodge to meditate on the capacious possibilities bound up with ideas of social haunting. An absorbing, challenging read.' - Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck University of London, UK"Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory offers wide-ranging sociological analysis of ghosts and the places in which they appear. Unlike other volumes specializing in literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic reflections on ghosts, Hudson links their ephemeral appearance with rootedness in the social context of landscapes. […] Hudson mirrors the difficulties that the living face in trying to grasp and describe the social power of ghosts. The experience of being haunted by ghosts in certain places is difficult to pin down. Hudson is to be commended for an original, interdisciplinary analysis of social ghosts and landscapes that will be of interest to readers in sociology, memory studies, philosophy, cultural studies and literature." – Siobhan Kattago, Memory StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ghosts, landscapes and social memoryChapter 1. Ghost armies: Memory, landscape and social hauntingChapter 2. Dark caves: Prehistory and the origins of social ghostsChapter 3. Revolutionary spirits: Marx, Engels and catastropheChapter 4. Excavating spectres: Haunting and psychoanalysisChapter 5. Night spaces: The haunted houseChapter 6. Zong spectres: Ghosts of the slave systemChapter 7. Ghastly fictions: Writing the catastropheChapter 8. Nightvisiting songs: Performing the deadChapter 9. Spectral machines: Seeing social ghostsChapter 10. Conclusions: Arrivals from the futureReferencesIndex

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