Heritage and Identity (eBook, PDF)

Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World
Redaktion: Anico, Marta; Peralta, Elsa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing an account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures. This collection is suitable for those interested in heritage and museum studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134053384
• Artikelnr.: 42976126

Autorenporträt

Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Place and Identity 1. What Role Can Digital Heritage Play in the
Re-imagining of National Identities? England and its Icons 2. Locating Art:
The Display and Construction of Place Identity in Art Galleries 3. Place,
Local Distinctiveness and Local Identity: Ecomuseum Approaches in Europe
and Asia 4. Representing Identities at Local Municipal Museums: Cultural
Forums or Identity Bunkers? 5. Heritage According to Scale Part 2:
Remembering and Forgetting 6.Unsettling Memories: Intervention and
Controversy Over Difficult Public Heritage 7. Public Silences, Private
Voices: Memory Games in a Maritime Heritage Complex 8. The Banalization and
the Contestation of Memory in Postcommunist Poland 9. A Landscape of
Memories: Layers of Meaning in a Dublin Park Part 3: Domination and
Contestation 10. Labor and Leisure at Monticello: Or Representing Race
Instead of Class at an Inadvertent White Identity Shrine 11. The Ancient
City Walls of Great Benin: Colonialism, Urban Heritage and Cultural
Identity in Contemporary Nigeria 12. The Past in the Present: Towards a
Politics of Care at the National Trust of Australia -WA 13. Yoruba Identity
and Western Museums: Ethnic Pride and Artistic Representations