Richard Handler

Author of The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

About the Author

Richard Handler is a professor of anthropology and director of the Global Development Studies Program at the University of Virginia. His many books include Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society and HOA Volume 11, Central Sites, Peripheral Visions: Cultural and show more Institutional Crossings in the History of Anthropology, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. show less

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Works by Richard Handler

Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec (1988) 28 copies

Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities (1990) 17 copies, 1 review

Significant others : interpersonal and professional commitments in anthropology (2004) 7 copies

Excluded ancestors, inventible traditions essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology (2000) 4 copies

Critics against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society (2005) 3 copies

Central sites, peripheral visions cultural and institutional crossings in the history of anthropology (2006) 2 copies

Vehicles: Cars, Cones, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination by (2014-08-01) 1 copy

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Museums in the Material World (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) (2007) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Politics of Gesture: Historical Perspectives (Past & Present, Supplement 4, 2009) (2009) — Contributor — 8 copies

New perspectives in language, culture, and personality proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1-3 October 1984) (1986) — Contributor — 5 copies

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Birthdate: 1950-05-17
Gender: male
Occupations: anthropologist
professor
Organizations: University of Virginia

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The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg by Richard Handler

Two anthropologists study the corporate culture of the staff and management of this famous living history museum. There goal is to evaluate how social history is being taught and the many challenges to presenting it to varied audience, most of whom are on vacation. This study took place a couple of years before I worked for CW and for the most part the authors are dead on in their criticisms, but also rightly sympathetic to the challenges museum educators face.

Nov 18, 2008

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Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities by Richard Handler

I really enjoyed the early chapters, where the book was more about the novels. However, it went off the rails, towards the end, when it because more about today's social realities. Too bad - the early part of the book was excellent.

Jun 19, 2011