Museums and Memory: Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropoligical Society, Staunton, Virginia March, 2008 - Couverture souple

 
9780984644520: Museums and Memory: Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropoligical Society, Staunton, Virginia March, 2008
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ISBN 10 : 0984644520 ISBN 13 : 9780984644520
Editeur : University of Tennessee Press, 2012

Synopsis


This volume brings together contributions from a variety of anthropologists working in a variety of fields, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and ethnohistory, in order to reflect on the importance of memory and its public presentation. The intense interest surrounding the 400th anniversary of Jamestown in 2007 was the immediate occasion for this theme, and the volume has several chapters on issues devoted to memory in the U.S. South. While museums often present themselves as neutral settings for the interpretation of artifacts, they are deeply embedded in cultural, political, and social situations that anthropologists are in a unique position to evaluate. Moreover, the volume is noteworthy for including analyses of more informal sites of memory, including oral history, that connect local pasts and futures. A sophisticated, multilayered examination of a now trendy topic in anthropology, this work seeks to question widely held notions about collective memory, always reminding us that museums and monuments inform each of us of the past in some particular way and insist that we add it to our consciousness--that we remember it.

Margaret Williamson Huber is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. She is the author of Powhatan Lord of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.

Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, no. 39

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À propos de l'auteur

Margaret Williamson Huber is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. She is the author of Powhatan Lord of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.

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Éditeur
University of Tennessee Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0984644520
ISBN 13 
9780984644520
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
239
Éditeur
Huber Margaret Wilson
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