Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance

An external researcher rather than a participant in living museums or a particular fan of them, Magelssen (theater arts, Augustana College, Illinois), examines the performance practices, philosophies, and curatorial methods they have used to stage the past through the 20th and into the 21st centuries, and how they see themselves as the very products of these practices. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)