Museums and memory / / edited by Margaret Williamson Huber

• Autore: Margaret Williamson Huber (Ed.)
• Pubblicazione: Newfound Press, 2011; Knoxville : , : Newfound Press University of Tennessee Libraries, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Soggetto topico: United States Local History; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Antiquities
• Soggetto non controllato: Southern States--Social life and customs--Congresses; Southern States--Antiquities--Congresses; Historical museums--Southern States--Congresses
• Persona (resp. second.): HuberMargaret Williamson; ShanafeltRobert
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 artefacts, 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, multi-layered 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Museums and memory
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131310503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Southern Anthropological Society proceedings.