Visiting the visitor : an enquiry into the visitor business in museums / edited by Ann Davis, Kerstin Smeds

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Cover Visiting the Visitor -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Visiting the Visitor -- Affect-based Exhibition -- Individual Identity/Collective History. Personalizing Essence in the Museum -- Describing and Understanding the Experience of Visitors -- Viewing the Museum Experience through an Identity Lens -- Empowering the Visitors. Process and Problems -- Here Comes Everybody! The Visitor Business in Museums in Light of Existential Philosophy -- Experiencing Dialogue. Behind the Cur tains of Museum Performance -- Social Representation Theory and Museum Visitors -- A Visitor-Centered Approach. Enhancing Museology with Perceptual Theory -- Reflections on Michail Bakhtin's Dialogue versus the Theory of Mirror Neurons -- Who do you Think they are? Museum Visitor Studies in Russia with a Historical Perspective -- Acknowledged and Empowered Visitors in Socialist Croatia. Diachronic Exploration -- Following Visitors' Comments in Disigning a Museum Refurbishment. Identity and Authentity -- From Real Thing to Real Experience. Rethinking the Museum Experience -- Museums and Visitors. Giving the Lions Powers to the Gazelle -- Authors' Biographies.