| Description |
471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- List of illustrations ix -- Acknowledgements xiii -- Jessica Evans -- Introduction: Nation And Representation 1 -- Part One 9 -- Culture, community and nation -- David Boswell 11 -- Introduction To Part One -- 1 Kevin Robins 15 -- Tradition And Translation: National -- Culture In Its Global Context -- 2 Stuart Hall 33 -- Culture, Community, Nation -- 3 Anthony D. Smith 45 -- History And Modernity: Reflections -- On The Theory Of Nationalism -- 4 Eric Hobsbawm 61 -- Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, -- 1870-1914 -- 5 Philip Dodd 87 -- Englishness And The National Culture -- Part Two 109 -- Representing the past as heritage and its -- consumption -- David Boswell 111 -- Introduction To Part Two -- 6 Patrick Wright 115 -- Trafficking In History -- 7 Robert Hewison 151 -- The Climate Of Decline -- 8 Raphael Samuel 163 -- Resurrectionism -- 9 Chris Rojek 185 -- Fatal Attractions -- 10 John Urry 208 -- Gazing On History -- Part Three 233 -- Museums as classificatory systems and -- their prehistories -- Jessica Evans 235 -- Introduction To Part Three -- 11 Richard D. Altick 240 -- National Monuments -- 12 David Goodman 258 -- Fear Of Circuses: Founding The National -- Museum Of Victoria -- 13 Robert W. Rydell 273 -- The Chicago World'S Colombian Exposition -- Of 1893: "And. Was Jerusalem Builded -- Here?" -- 14 Carol Duncan 304 -- From The Princely Gallery To The Public -- Art Museum: The Louvre Museum And The -- National Gallery, London -- 15 Tony Bennett 332 -- The Exhibitionary Complex -- Part Four 363 -- Museums and cultural management -- Jessica Evans 365 -- Introduction To Part Four -- 16 Kenneth Hudson 371 -- Attempts To Define ̀Museum' -- 17 Tony Bennett 380 -- Useful Culture -- 18 Colin Mercer 394 -- Cultural Policy: Research And The -- Government Imperative -- 19 Arjun Appadurai and 404 -- Carol A. Breckenridge -- Museums Are Good To Think: Heritage On -- View In India -- 20 Sharon Macdonald and Roger Silverstone 421 -- Rewriting The Museums' Fictions: Taxonomies, Stories -- And Readers -- 21 James Clifford 435 -- Museums As Contact Zones -- Index 459 |
| Summary |
Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation. With an international perspective focusing on the US, France, Australia, the UK and India, leading figures and authors, including Tony Bennet, Ralph Samuel and Carol Duncan examine the way the past is preserved, represented and consumer as our 'heritage.' Written in three sections, the book examines: strategies involved in creating and sustaining a national culture ; the growth of heritage culture, from the founding of the National Trust in 1895 to the heritage acts of the 1980s ; why it has become important for nations to preserve the past and in whose name is it preserved and displayed? ; the historical development of the public museum ; issues and difficulties facing museums today and the competing demands and interests of public funding bodies, tourists and local communities |
| Analysis |
Culture - Political aspects |
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Politics and culture |
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Museums - Political aspects |
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Nationalism |
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National state |
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National characteristics |
| Notes |
Published in association with The Open University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnopsychology.
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Nation-state.
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Politics and culture.
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Museums -- Political aspects.
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Nationalism.
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National characteristics.
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| Author |
Boswell, David.
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Evans, Jessica.
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
99018514 |
| ISBN |
041520870X paperback |
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0415208696 cased |
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