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

Contributor(s): Series: Museum meetingsPublication details: London : New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, c2009.Description: xii, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415453363 (pbk.) :
  • 0415453364 (pbk.) :
  • 9780415453356 (hbk.)
  • 0415453356 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CC135 .H45 2009
Contents:
What role can digital heritage play in the re-imagining of national identities?: England and its icons / Rhiannon Mason and Zelda Baveystock -- Locating art: the display and construction of place identity in art galleries / Christopher Whitehead -- Place, local distinctiveness and local identity: ecomuseum approaches in Europe and Asia / Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis and Donatella Murtas -- Representing identities at local municipal museums: cultural forums or identity bunkers? / Marta Anico -- Heritage according to scale / Llorenc Prats -- Unsettling memories: intervention and controversy over difficult public heritage / Sharon MacDonald -- Public silences, private voices: memory games in a maritime heritage complex / Elsa Peralta -- The banalization and the contestation of memory in a maritime heritage complex / Elsa Peralta -- The banalization and the contestation of memory in postcommunist Poland / Barbara A. Miszal -- A landscape of memories: layers of meaning in a Dublin park / Kate Moles -- Labor and leisure at Monticello: or representing race instead of class at an inadvertent white identity shrine / Eric Gable -- The ancient city walls of Great Benin: colonialism, urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- The past in the present: towards a politics of care at the National Trust of Australia (WA) / Andrea Witcomb -- Yoruba identity and Western museums: ethnic pride and artistic representation / Anna Catalani.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection CC 135 .H45 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5056976

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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