TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bouquet,Mary
AU  - Fairweather,Ian
AU  - Harvey,Penelope
AU  - Heatherington,Tracey
AU  - Macdonald,Sharon
AU  - Porto,Nuno
AU  - Saunders,Barbara
AU  - Silva,Natasha
AU  - Wastiau,Boris
AU  - Wieczorkiewicz,Anna
AU  - Wolbert,Barbara
TI  - Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic 
T2  - New Directions in Anthropology
SN  - 9781571815217
U1  - 069/.5 22/eng/20230216
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Protection
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Museum techniques
KW  - Museum theater
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Ritual
KW  - ART / Museum Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Museum Studies, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: SCIENCE, MAGIC AND RELIGION: THE RITUAL PROCESSES OF MUSEUM MAGIC --; PART I OBJECTS OF SCIENCE? BABY AND THE MUMMIES --; CHAPTER 1 MEMORIALISING THE FUTURE – THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY IN MANCHESTER --; CHAPTER 2 UNWRAPPING MUMMIES AND TELLING THEIR STORIES: EGYPTIAN MUMMIES IN MUSEUM RHETORIC --; PART II SITE SPECIFICS: THE CASE OF TERVUREN --; CHAPTER 3 CONGO-VISION --; CHAPTER 4 THE SCOURGE OF CHIEF KANSABALA: THE RITUAL LIFE OF TWO CONGOLESE MASTERPIECES AT THE ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA (1884–2001) --; PART III ENCOUNTERS, PERFORMANCES AND UNPREDICTABLES --; CHAPTER 5 PARADISE IN THE MAKING AT ARTIS ZOO, AMSTERDAM --; CHAPTER 6 THE NATURAL MAGIC OF MONTE SAN GIOVANNI: AUTHORITY, AUTHENTICITY AND RITUAL IN SARDINIA --; CHAPTER 7 THE PERFORMANCE OF HERITAGE IN A RECONSTRUCTED, POST-APARTHEID MUSEUM IN NAMIBIA --; CHAPTER 8 HAUNTED ART: VISITING AN EXHIBIT IN WEIMAR --; PART IV DILEMMAS OF ENCHANTMENT --; CHAPTER 9 ENCHANTMENT AND ITS DILEMMAS: THE MUSEUM AS A RITUAL SITE --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that make use of museums in often unexpected ways
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782387121?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782387121
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782387121/original
ER  -