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Published April 2024
Transforming Author Museums
From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)
Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.
Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published January 2024
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2023
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2021
Unlocking the Love-Lock
The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom
Houlbrook, C.
A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2023
Heritage Movements in Asia
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)
This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2019
Playing with the Past
Exploring Values in Heritage Practice
Clark, K.
Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.
Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Archaeology
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Published September 2022
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Marsh, D. E.
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2022
Views of Violence
Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
Echternkamp, J. & Jaeger, S. (eds)
The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published January 2023
Politics of Scale
New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies
Lähdesmäki, T., Thomas, S., & Zhu, Y. (eds)
Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies
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Published November 2018
Curating Live Arts
Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Davida, D., Pronovost, M., Hudom, V., & Gabriels, J. (eds)
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.
Subjects: Performance Studies Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2020
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls
The Adventures of Eugène Boban
MacLaren Walsh, J. & Topping, B.
Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.
Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology
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Published July 2018
Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Meyer, B. & van de Port, M. (eds)
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion," this volume explores the centrality of this tension to heritage formation worldwide.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
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Published November 2019
The Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Jong, S. de
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies
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Published December 2020
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Bishop Kendzia, V.
By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Educational Studies Memory Studies
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Published July 2018
World Heritage on the Ground
Ethnographic Perspectives
Brumann, C. & Berliner, D. (eds)
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies
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Published January 2019
Museum Websites and Social Media
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Sánchez Laws, A. L.
Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies
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Published June 2017
European Products
Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus
Welz, G.
Since the Republic of Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, heritage-making and Europeanization are becoming intertwined in Greek-Cypriot society. The author argues that heritage emerges as an increasingly standardized economic resource — a “European product” — and that heritage policy has become infused with transnational market regulations and neoliberal property regimes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies
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Published January 2018
The Enemy on Display
The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Bogumił, Z., Wawrzyniak, J., Buchen, T., Ganzer, C. & Senina, M.
Eastern European museums represent the traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the bombardment of Dresden, in ways that cast the enemy in a specific light. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence over the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can play an important role in this process.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies
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Published February 2015
Objects and Imagination
Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning
Fuglerud, Ø. & Wainwright, L. (eds)
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies
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Published May 2016
From Antiquities to Heritage
Transformations of Cultural Memory
Eriksen, A.
What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present.
Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies Heritage Studies
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Published March 2016
Exhibiting Europe in Museums
Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
Kaiser, W., Krankenhagen, S. & Poehls, K.
Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age, particularly in Europe where processes of Europeanization and globalization require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge.
Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies
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Published October 2013
Transcultural Montage
Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds)
“This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.” · Martin Holbraad, University College London
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Museum Studies
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Published October 2015
About the Hearth
Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies
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Published March 2015
Distributed Objects
Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell
Chua, L. & Elliott, M. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Literary Studies
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Published April 2014
Extreme Collecting
Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums
Were, G. & King, J. C. H. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology
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Published May 2011
Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory
Sánchez Laws, A. L.
Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies
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Published November 2010
The Long Way Home
The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Turnbull, P. & Pickering, M. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published February 2010
Changes in Museum Practice
New Media, Refugees and Participation
Skartveit & Goodnow, K. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2008
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity
Goodnow, K. & Akman, H. (eds)
Subject: Museum Studies
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Published March 2008
Museums, the Media and Refugees
Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion
Goodnow, K, Lohman, J. & Marfleet, P. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published December 2007
Fetishes and Monuments
Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Sansi, R.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2007
The Future of Indigenous Museums
Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
Stanley, N. (ed)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2006
Science, Magic and Religion
The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Bouquet, M. & Porto, N. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum
Back to the Future
Bouquet, M. (ed)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2001
Hunting the Gatherers
Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s
O'Hanlon, M. & Welsch, R. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Theory and Methodology Colonial History Heritage Studies
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