This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings, museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building. Using key Cypriote archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and art museums as examples, this book:provides a multifaceted and deeper understanding of how politics, conflict, national agendas, and individual initiatives can shape museums and their narratives; discusses how these forces contribute to the creation of, and conflict over, national, community and personal identities; examines how museums use inclusion and exclusion in their collections, exhibitions, objects and interpretive material as a way of selectively constructing collective memories.This book will be an important resource for museum professionals, as well as scholars interested in the effects of politics on museums and interpretations of the past.
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1 Introduction2 Museums, Politics, Stakeholders, and Conflict3 National Museums: Heritage and Identity4 Archaeology and the Politics of the Past5 Defining “Cypriotness”: Folk Museums, Communities,6 History and Memory: Victims, Heroes, and Enemies7 Visualizing War: Photography and Museums8 Cultural “Wars,” Religious Artifacts, and Visitors:9 Art and Politics and the Politics of Art10 Conclusions
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781611329698
Publisert
2016-04-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Left Coast Press Inc
Vekt
518 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, U, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
274