Museums and memory.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huber, Margaret Williamson.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 39.

Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical museums--Southern States--Congresses.

Historical museums.

Anthropological museums and collection--Southern States.

Anthropological museums and collection.

Manners and customs.

Antiquities.

Southern States--Antiquities--Congresses.

Southern States.

Southern States--Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Congresses.

Southern States--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : Univ of tennessee press, 2012.

Summary:

This volume brings together contributions from a variety of anthropologists working in a variety of fields, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and ethnohistory, in order to reflect on the importance of memory and its public presentation. The intense interest surrounding the 400th anniversary of Jamestown in 2007 was the immediate occasion for this theme, and the volume has several chapters on issues devoted to memory in the U.S. South. While museums often present themselves as neutral settings for the interpretation of artifacts, they are deeply embedded in cultural, political, and social situations that anthropologists are in a unique position to evaluate. Moreover, the volume is noteworthy for including analyses of more informal sites of memory, including oral history, that connect local pasts and futures. A sophisticated, multilayered examination of a now trendy topic in anthropology, this work seeks to question widely held notions about collective memory, always reminding us that museums and monuments inform each of us of the past in some particular way and insist that we add it to our consciousness-that we remember it. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Forget Culture, Remember Memory? (Keynote Address) / Richard Handler

Evaluating Mississippian Period Hunting Strategies at the Rutherford-Kizer Site / Tanya M. Peres

Remembering New Deal Archaeology in the Southeast: A Legacy in Museum Collections / Shannon D. Koerner

Memory within a University Landscape / Bernard K. Means

The Jamestown Commemoration of 2007: Remembering our Diversity in the Past and Present / Vincent H. Melomo

Vandalizing Meaning, Stealing Memory: Thoughts on Crime in Galleries and Museums / Avi Brisman

Menace and Majesty: the Jocassee Gorges Region of Upper South Carolina / John M. Coggeshall

Miss Lillibelle, Moonshine, and Midnight at the Crystal Cafe: Remembrances of a Southeast Arkansas Culture-scape / Susan Elizabeth Probasco

Objects of Desire: Photographs and Retrospective Narratives of Fieldwork in Indonesia / Jennifer W. Nourse

Contents note continued: Memory and Celebration in Contemporary San Miguel de Allende, Mexico / Samantha Krause

Moving Around in the Room: Cherokee Language, Worldview and Memory / Tom Belt.

Notes:

"Selected papers from the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Staunton, Virginia, March, 2008."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0984644520

9780984644520

OCLC:

796391237

Publisher Number:

99948742240