Heritage’s revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and non-Western philosophies and practices, and a growing respect for the intangible. Heritage has, thus far, focused on management, tourism and the traditionally ‘heritage-minded’ disciplines, such as archaeology, geography, and social and cultural theory. Widening the scope of international heritage studies, A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage explores heritage through new areas of knowledge, including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration, and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage.
Drawing on a range of disciplines and the best from established sources, the book includes writing not typically recognised as 'heritage', but which, nevertheless, makes a valuable contribution to the debate about what heritage is, what it can do, and how it works and for whom. Including heritage perspectives from beyond the professional sphere, the book serves as a reminder that heritage is not just an academic concern, but a deeply felt and keenly valued public and private practice. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from other disciplines offers readers international views of the past and future of this growing field.
A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage offers a wider, more current and more inclusive overview of issues and practices in heritage and its intersection with museums. As such, the book will be essential reading for postgraduate students of heritage and museum studies. It will also be of great interest to academics, practitioners and anyone else who is interested in how we conceptualise and use the past.
Edited by:
Sheila Watson,
Amy Jane Barnes,
Katy Bunning
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 2.222kg
ISBN: 9781138950931
ISBN 10: 1138950939
Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Pages: 902
Publication Date: 02 October 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction Part I: Heritage contexts, past and present Introduction to Part I Heritage pasts and heritage presents: temporality, meaning and the scope of heritage studies Museum studies and heritage: independent museums and the ‘heritage debate’ in the UK People [extracts] The crisis of cultural authority Editorials: History Workshop Journal Hybrids Understanding our encounters with heritage: the value of ""historical consciousness"" Weighing up intangible heritage: A view from Ise From monument to cultural patrimony: the concepts and practices of heritage in Mexico We come from the land of the ice and snow: Icelandic heritage and its usage in present-day society Por la encendida calle antillana: Africanisms and Puerto Rican architecture Iconoclash in the age of heritage [extracts] Part II: Authenticity and tourism Introduction to Part II 13. Touring the slave route: inaccurate authenticities in Benin, West Africa 14. Steampunking heritage: how Steampunk artists reinterpret museum collections 15. Why fakes? 16. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction 17. After authenticity at an American heritage site 18. Makeover for Mont-Saint-Michel: a renovation project harnesses the power of the sea to preserve one of the world's most iconic islands 19. Resonance and wonder 20. ‘Introduction’ to In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies Part III: Emotions and materiality Introduction to Part III 21. Invoking affect 22. The archaeology of mind [extracts] 23. ""The trophies of their wars"": affect and encounter at the Canadian War Museum 24. Huddled masses yearning to buy postcards: the politics of producing heritage at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island National Monument 25. The Holocaust and the museum world in Britain: a study of ethnography 26. Senses of place, senses of time and heritage 27. Making heritage pay in the Rainbow Nation 28. The concept and its varieties 29. Materiality matters: experiencing the displayed object 30. Concepts of identity and difference 31. Emotional engagement in heritage sites and museums: ghosts of the past and imagination in the present 32. The Third World 33. Turkish delight: Antonio Gala's La pasión turca as a vision of Spain's contested Islamic heritage 34. ‘The cliffs are not the cliffs’: The cliffs of Dover and national identities in Britain, c.1750 – c.1950 Part IV: Diversity and identity Introduction to Part IV 35. Museums as intercultural spaces 36. Gradients of alterity: museums and the negotiation of cultural difference in contemporary Norway 37. Museums in a global world: a conversation on museums, heritage, nation and diversity in a transnational age 38. Reflections on the Confluence Project: assimilation, sustainability, and the perils of a shared heritage 39. Ethnic heritage for the nation: debating 'identity museums' on the National Mall 40. Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles? 41. Un-placed heritage: making identity through fashion Part V: Participatory heritage Introduction to Part V 42. Research on community heritage: Moving from collaborative research to participatory and co-designed research practice 43. Beyond the rhetoric: negotiating the politics and realising the potential of community-driven heritage engagement 44. From representation to participation: inclusive practices, co-curating and the voice of the protagonists in some Italian migration museums 45. Museums, trans youth and institutional change: transforming heritage institutions through collaborative practice 46. Embrace the margins: adventures in archaeology and homelessness 47. Developing dialogue in co‐produced exhibitions: between rhetoric, intentions and realities 48. Community engagement, curatorial practice and museum ethos in Alberta, Canada Part VI: Contested histories and heritage Introduction to Part VI 49. Contested townscapes: the walled city as world heritage 50. Reassembling Nuremberg, reassembling heritage. 51. Can there be a conciliatory heritage? 52. Palimpsest memoryscapes: materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone 53. Representing the China Dream: A case study in revolutionary cultural heritage 54. Contested trans-national heritage: the demolition of Changi Prison, Singapore 55. The politics of community heritage: motivations, authority and control 56. ""To make the dry bones live"": Amédée Forestier’s Glastonbury Lake Village 57. ‘Introduction’ to Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place 58. Sensuous (re)collections: the sight and taste of socialism at Grūtas Statue Park, Lithuania Index"
Sheila Watson is an Associate Professor and Director of the MA/MSc in Heritage and Interpretation by Distance Learning in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. Amy Jane Barnes is Research Associate in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, UK, a University Teacher at Loughborough University, UK, and an affiliate of King's College London. Katy Bunning is a Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.
Reviews for A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage
This new edition of People of the Earth continues the highly authoritative and well-written coverage of Brian Fagan's thorough and accessible introduction to global (pre)history. Now with coauthor Nadia Durrani, the volume captures our humanity's identity through deep time and our earthly space in a factual narrative readily intelligible to a broad readership. From our human origins 7 million years ago to the Shang Dynasty of China, we are taken on a time-traveling machine with numerous layovers, surprises and counterintuitive storylines. Vernon L. Scarborough, University of Cincinnati, USA
