Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition: an introduction to the politics of display / Sharon Macdonald -- Speaking to the eyes: museums, legibility and the social order / Tony Bennett -- The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological collections / Nélia Dias -- Reifying race: science and art in Races of mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History / Tracy Lang Teslow -- Making nature 'real' again: natural history exhibits and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1960s / Steven W. Allison-Bunnell -- On interactivity: consumers, citizens and culture / Andrew Barry -- Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' / Sharon Macdonald -- Nations on display: technology and culture in Expo '92 / Penelope Harvey -- Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History / Mary Bouquet -- Can science museums take history seriously? / Jim Bennett -- Birth and breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / Ken Arnold -- Balancing acts: science, Enola Gay and history wars at the Smithsonian / Thomas F. Gieryn -- Afterword: from war to debate? / Sharon Macdonald
Summary
This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies and science studies
