Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity write by Katherine J. Goodnow. This book was released on 2008-09. Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Museums across the world are facing the task of capturing, reflecting and representing the notion of complex identities; personal, religious and ethnic. Narratives of national allegiances are being slowly replaced and supplemented by indigenous and minority voices providing a more complex understanding of diversity especially where intangible heritage is called on as a witness. The approach taken by Scandinavian museums in response to this challenge highlights the hybrid forms of cultural diversity and how they interrelate and work together." "By bringing together debates and discussions of identity and diversity, this volume offers a particular insight into a broad geographic region and its diverse people, from the Sami and the limit to new migrants. It also presents a set of historical views on the formation of national museums and their contested perceptions of identity. Whilst developing new arguments and furthering an ongoing debate, it offers museum curators possible ways forward."--BOOK JACKET.
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity write by Katherine Goodnow. This book was released on 2008-09-01. Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Museums face the task of representing the similarities and differences that exist between groups, such as national identities and indigenous and minority voices, material and intangible heritage, and current status and past history. In order to achieve this aim, a complex and not always easily compatible set of interests have to be taken into account, from those of the museum itself, to those of its main audiences, sources of support, and the groups that are, or wish to be, represented. The approach taken by Scandinavian museums in response to this challenge highlights a very active concern for forms of cultural diversity and how they are interrelated. By bringing together debates and discussions of diversity, this volume offers insight into the Nordic region and its diverse peoples, from the Sámi and the Inuit to newer immigrants. It presents a set of historical reviews on the formation of national museums and emerging and contested perceptions of national identity. Furthering the general debate on representations of diversity and museums, it also offers museum curators possible ways forward.
Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity
Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity write by Christina Johansson. This book was released on 2015-03-04. Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historically, an important role of museums has been to contribute to national homogenization. The book specifically deals with how the Swedish museum sector of culture and history addresses new demands from a society that is profoundly characterized by migration and cultural diversity. Besides the museums' representations of migration and cultural diversity, the book also examines how changes in the museum sector relate to general policy developments in the fields of culture, integration and minorities. The book also discusses whether and how museums are open for dialogue and collaboration with migrants and ethnic minorities and the kinds of problems museums encounter in their efforts to be more inclusive.
Performing Nordic Heritage
Performing Nordic Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Nordic Heritage write by Lizette Gradén. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Performing Nordic Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The performance of heritage takes place in prestigious institutions such as museums and archives, in officially sanctioned spaces such as jubilees and public monuments, but also in more mundane, ephemeral and banal cultural practices, such as naming of phenomena, viewing exhibitions or walking in the countryside. This volume examines the performance of Nordic heritage and the shaping of the very idea of Norden in diverse contexts in North America, the Baltic and the Nordic countries and examines the importance of these places as sites for creating and preserving cultural heritage. Offering rich perspectives on a part of Europe which has not been the centre of discussion in the Anglophone world, this volume will be of value to a wide readership, including cultural historians, museum practitioners, policy-makers and scholars of heritage, ethnology and folkloristics.
Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory
Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory write by Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws. This book was released on 2011-05. Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Panama is an ethnically diverse country with a recent history of political conflict which makes the representation of historical memory an especially complex and important task for the country’s museums. This book studies new museum projects in Panama with the aim of identifying the dominant narratives that are being formed as well as those voices that remain absent and muted. Through case analyses of specific museums and exhibitions the author identifies and examines the influences that form and shape museum strategy and development.
