Excellent idea!  Contact museum shops and restaurants directly, see if
they'll share their business plans or sales records with you to
substantiate your hypothesis; get anecdotal support from staff for where
such "hard evidence" is not available.  A great opportunity for original
research, on a really interesting idea.



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Tim McShane, Assistant--Cultural History
Esplanade Museum
401 First Street SE
Medicine Hat, AB   T1A 8W2
Tel: (403) 502-8587
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  Sounds to me like you have a fine take on this already--why don't
you
concentrate on developing this in your own way so that you become the
person others quote?
  Adrienne DeAngelis, Editor
  Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
  (http://www.efn.org/~acd/resources.html)

> Hello,
> I am a graduate student at the University at Buffalo and i am working
on a
> thesis regarding racial and cultural hybridity in the museum. I am
having
> difficulty finding sources of information for one of my chapters.
The
> chapter is  regarding museum consumption of the Other.I am interested
in
> finding any books/articles/essay on museum restaurants and museum
shops.
> My
> idea is that museums restaurants and shops displaying "ethnic" items
are
> another way that the museum makes culture digestible and
intelligible
> serving as a snapshot of other cultures. Through our purchases and
> consumption  we participate in that culture while not abandoning the
> comfort
> of our own.
>
> I would appreciate any assistance anyone can offer. Thank you very
much
> for
> your help.
>
> Rossy
>
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