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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782848603321

Autore

Kavanagh Gaynor

Titolo

Dream spaces : memory and the museum / / Gaynor Kavanagh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Leicester University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-282-01301-7

9786612013010

0-567-60504-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

069

Soggetti

Museums - Philosophy

Museums - Social aspects

Museums - Educational aspects

Memory (Philosophy)

Memory - Social aspects

Learning, Psychology of

Communication and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-189) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Dream spaces, memories and museums; 2 What is memory?; 3 Remembering and forgetting; 4 Memory and life stages; 5 Memory in late life; 6 Remembering and the society of others; 7 The art of listening; 8 Oral history and museums; 9 Recording memories; 10 Working with testimony; 11 Dynamics of interviewing; 12 Collections of objects, or memories?; 13 Collecting memories and objects; 14 Reminiscence and the older adult; 15 Working with reminiscence; 16 Working with the memory bearers; 17 Bearing witness; 18 Memories, dream spaces and the visit

19 Dreaming the rational 20 Memory spaces, dreams and museums; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The dream space, writes Sheldon Annis, ""is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum."" In Memory and the Museum, Gaynor Kavanaugh argues that ""dream spaces"" are the point at which our inner and outer experiences meld. During the museum visit,



memory and the present cease to be disparate but fuse into one singular experience. Drawing from such fields as behavioral gerontology, applied psychology, and historiography, Kavanaugh employs research from North America, Australia, and Europe to provide a critical and conceptual exploration into museums and the mind.