Pasts Beyond Memory Evolution Museums Colonialism 1st Edition by Tony Bennett 0415247462 9780415247467

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ISBN 10: 0415247462

ISBN 13: 9780415247467

Author: Tony Bennett

Contributing to current debates on relationships between culture and the social, and the the rapidly changing practices of modern museums as they seek to shed the legacies of both evolutionary conceptions and colonial science, this important new work explores how evolutionary museums developed in the USA, UK, and Australia in the late nineteenth century.

Pasts Beyond Memory Evolution Museums Colonialism 1st Table of contents:

1 Dead circuses: expertise, exhibition, government

The expert as showman

Time and space in the museum

Evolution as temporal conscience

Expertise, exhibition, government and new liberalism

International networks and the new museum idea

2 The archaeological gaze of the historical sciences

The odds and ends of history

Reading the rocks

Filling in time

History in motion

3 Reassembling the museum

Black-boxing evolution

Bureaucratising the past

Archaeological objects

4 The connective tissue of civilisation

Accumulating pasts: habit, memory and self-government

Archaeologising the self and the social

Evolution, culture and liberal government

Evolutionary accumulators

5 Selective memory: racial recall and civic renewal at the American Museum of Natural History

Evolution, ethics, government: philanthropy and the state

Nature’s many lessons

Renewing the race plasm: accumulation and difference

6 Evolutionary ground zero: colonialism and the fold of memory

Colonial liberalism, culture and the state

Vicious circles and rigmaroles: the plan of creation

Shallowing the past

From ‘let die’ to ‘let live’

7 Words, things and vision: evolution ‘at a glance’

The spaces in-between: evolution and its blind spots

Seeing and knowing

Classification and the arrangement of the visible

Object ventriloquism and evolutionary expertise

Developing clear-sighted attentiveness

Postscript: slow modernity

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