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Heritage and identity : engagement and demission in the contemporary world

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  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Heritage and identity : engagement and demission in the contemporary world
  • Other Name

    Museum meanings (Series)

  • Primary Maker

    Elsa Peralta (Editor of compilation)

    Marta Anico (Editor of compilation)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
  • Place
  • Date
    2009
  • Physical Description

    xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780415453356
    0415453356
    9780415453363
    0415453364
    9780203886007
    0203886003
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    1 item in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Part I. Place and identity
    1. What role can digital heritage play in the re-imagining of national identities?: England and its icons / Rhiannon Mason and Zelda Baveystock
    2. Locating art: the display and construction of place identity in art galleries / Christopher Whitehead
    3. Place, local distinctiveness and local identity: ecomuseum approaches in Europe and Asia / Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis and Donatella Murtas
    4. Representing identities at local municipal museums: cultural forums or identity bunkers? / Marta Anico
    5. Heritage according to scale / Llorenc Prats
    Part II. Remembering and forgetting
    6. Unsettling memories: intervention and controversy over difficult public heritage / Sharon MacDonald
    7. Public silences, private voices: memory games in a maritime heritage complex / Elsa Peralta
    8. The banalization and the contestation of memory in postcommunist Poland / Barbara A. Miszal
    9. A landscape of memories: layers of meaning in a Dublin park / Kate Moles
    Part III.
    10. Labour and leisure at Monticello: or representing race instead of class at an inadvertent white identity shrine / Eric Gable
    11. The ancient city walls of Great Benin: colonialism, urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
    12. The past in the present: towards a politics of care at the National Trust of Australia (WA) / Andrea Witcomb
    13. Yoruba identity and Western museums: ethnic pride and artistic representation / Anna Catalani.
  • Public Access Text

    Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    06 Dec 2024
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