Museums and Difference

Book Overview

Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference--notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race--have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference offers the perspectives of scholars and museum professionals in tandem, using the concept of difference to reexamine how museums...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219353
• ISBN13: 9780253219350
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher