Curating America : journeys through storyscapes of the American past /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation
- Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere
- Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster
- Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it?
- Postscript
- A reader's reflections.