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Extinct Monsters to Deep Time : conflict, compromise, and the making of Smithsonian's fossil halls /
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History as it prepar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
[2019]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Museums and collections ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreward
- Prologue. fieldnotes from the badlands
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Chronology A. Lists of relevant leadership
- Chronology B. Geologic time scale
- Chronology C. Fossil exhibits timeline
- Introduction
- Increase and diffusion : early fossil exhibits and a history of institutional culture
- Group dynamics : exhibit meetings and expertise
- group dynamics : the roots of team frictions and complementarities
- Content development : debates about interconnected processes and static things
- Content development : the roots of interpretive frictions and complementarities
- Diffusion and increase: shifts in institutional culture from modernization to now
- Conclusion
- Coda : the nation'sT-rex
- Appendix A. Consent form
- Appendix B. Interview questionnaires
- Sample team interview questionnaire
- Sample oral history interview questionnaire
- Glossary.