Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism
By (author): "Tony Bennett"
Genres:Museums books
Publish Date:
January 1st 2004
ISBN0415247470
ISBN139780415247474
AsinPasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism
Original titlePasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (Museum Meanings)
This important new work explores how museums of human evolution developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late 19th century. This historical investigation also contributes to current debates, both on relationships between culture and society, and to the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, with the goal of contributing to the development and management of cultural diversity.