Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-122-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Museums and Collections

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 prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time.  As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marsh, Diana E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Table

Foreward

Jennifer Shannon

Prologue: Fieldnotes from the Badlands

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Chronology A: Lists of Relevant Leadership

Chronology B: Geologic Time Scale

Chronology C: Fossil Exhibits Timeline

Introduction

Chapter 1. Increase and Diffusion: Early Fossil Exhibits and a History of Institutional Culture

Chapter 2. Group Dynamics: Exhibit Meetings and Expertise

Chapter 3. Group Dynamics: The Roots of Team Frictions and Complementarities

Chapter 4. Content Development: Debates about Interconnected Processes and Static Things

Chapter 5. Content Development: The Roots of Interpretive Frictions and Complementarities

Chapter 6. Diffusion and Increase: Shifts in Institutional Culture from Modernization to Now

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Chapter 8. Coda: The Nation’s T-rex

Appendix A: Consent Form

Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires

Sample Team Interview Questionnaire

Sample Oral History Interview Questionnaire

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marsh, Diana E.
Diana E. Marsh is a research anthropologist and museum practitioner who studies how heritage institutions communicate with the public. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where she is working to increase the accessibility of archival collections.