Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 09:00:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Imre Szeman <szeman-AT-mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: books on museums


>From my colleague, Sourayan Mookerjea at the U of Alberta, who has done
some work on museums from a poco angle.

Imre Szeman

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There is a book by Moira Simpson called something like the Postcolonial
Museum. Its very descriptive with--describes
well a lot of museums and you get an overview of the main issues.  For more
on the Canadian situation there is a book by Michael Ames (forgot title
Glass Boxes?) worth looking at.  Also do a search of Native Studies Review,
several articles on museums and aboriginal culture have been published
there.  Tony Bennett's Birth of the Museum is the theory book on museums
(as well as his Culture: A Reformer's Science).  For a more postcolonial
discussion check Chris Healy's From the Ruins of Colonialism.  Anna
Greenhill Cooper and K. Pomian are other important theoretical discussions.
Lastly your student should check out the Key Center website at Griffiths
Brisbane (Bennett's old institute). They publish a lot of monographs, lots
on museums, especially new ones in Australia.

cheers, Sourayan

Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea
Theory & Culture Studies Circle
Department of Sociology
6-10 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2H4
tel/ 780.492.3384
sourayan-AT-ualberta.ca





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