Heritage and identity : engagement and demission in the contemporary world / edited by Marta Anico and Elsa Peralta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anico, Marta.

Peralta, Elsa.

Series:

Museum meanings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Protection--Case studies.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection--Social aspects--Case studies.

Cultural property--Protection--Political aspects--Case studies.

National characteristics--Case studies.

National characteristics.

Ethnicity--Case studies.

Ethnicity.

Social ecology--Case studies.

Social ecology.

Collective memory--Social aspects--Case studies.

Collective memory.

Postcolonialism--Case studies.

Postcolonialism.

Museums--Social aspects--Case studies.

Museums.

Museums--Political aspects--Case studies.

Museums--Political aspects.

Museums--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

Cultural property--Protection--Political aspects.

Cultural property--Protection.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction 1

Part I Place and identity 13

1 What role can digital heritage play in the re-imagining of national identities?: England and its icons / Rhiannon Mason, Zelda Baveystock 15

2 Locating art: The display and construction of place identity in art galleries / Christopher Whitehead 29

3 Place, local distinctiveness and local identity: Ecomuseum approaches in Europe and Asia / Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis, Donatella Murtas 47

4 Representing identities at local municipal museums: Cultural forums or identity bunkers? / Marta Anico 63

5 Heritage according to scale / Llorenç Prats 76

Part II Remembering and forgetting 91

6 Unsettling memories: Intervention and controversy over difficult public heritage / Sharon Macdonald 93

7 Public silences, private voices: Memory games in a maritime heritage complex / Elsa Peralta 105

8 The banalization and the contestation of memory in postcommunist Poland / Barbara A. Misztal 117

9 A landscape of memories: Layers of meaning in a Dublin park / Kate Moles 129

Part III Domination and contestation 141

10 Labor and leisure at Monticello: Or representing race instead of class at an inadvertent white identity shrine / Eric Gable 143

11 The ancient city walls of Great Benin: Colonialism, urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan 156

12 The past in the present: Towards a politics of care at the National Trust of Australia (WA) / Andrea Witcomb 169

13 Yorùbá identity and Western museums: Ethnic pride and artistics representations / Anna Catalani 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415453356

0415453356

9780415453363

0415453364

9780203886007

0203886003

OCLC:

166383136