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Re: The history of museums
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Kathy Mancuso <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:59:33 -0500
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Are we doing books?  Well, then . . .

Impey & MacGregor, (previously recommended) absolutely.
Andrea Dennett, Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America (NYU, 1997)
Civilizing Rituals, Carol Duncan (Routledge, 1995)
Exhibiting Contradiction, Alan Wallach
Museums & American Intellectual Life, Stephen Conn (UChicago P, 1998)
anything by Stephen Weil
Journal of the History of Collections
Patricia West, Domesticating History (SI Press, 1999)
anything by John Cotton Dana
George W. Stocking, Objects and Others (for those anthropology buffs)

Hope this helps,
Kathy Mancuso

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