Author: Bouquet, Mary ; & Porto, Nuno ; editors :
Title: Science, Magic and Religion : The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Description: New York, Berghahn Books, 2005. orig. boards. 23x15cm, xii,240 pp. Series: New Directions in Anthropology, vol. 22.. Textual illustrations.. ISBN: 1571815201. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Contains 10 papers. Includes: Memorialising the Future: the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester [Penelope Harvey]- Unwrapping Mummies and Telling their Stories: Egyptian Mummies in Museum Rhetoric [Anna Wieczorkiewicz] - Congo-Vision [Barbara Saunders] - The Scourge of Chief Kansabala: the Ritual Life of Two Congolese Masterpieces at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (1884-2001) [Boris Wastiau] - Paradise in the Making at Artis Zoo, Amsterdam, [Natasha Silva] - The Natural Magic of Monte San Giovanni: Authority, Authenticity and Ritual in Sardinia [Tracey Heatherington] - The Performance of Heritage in a Reconstructed, Post- Apartheid Museum in Namibia [Ian Fairweather] - Haunted Art: Visiting an Exhibit in Weimar [Barbara Wolbert] -Enchantment and its Dilemmas: the Museum as a Ritual Site [Sharon Macdonald}.

Keywords: 1571815201 Sociology of Museums, Museumology, Museum Exhibits, Anthropology, Social Theory, , , ,