1st Edition
A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage
Heritage’s revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and non-Western philosophies and practices, and a growing respect for the intangible. Heritage has, thus far, focused on management, tourism and the traditionally ‘heritage-minded’ disciplines, such as archaeology, geography, and social and cultural theory. Widening the scope of international heritage studies, A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage explores heritage through new areas of knowledge, including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration, and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage.
Drawing on a range of disciplines and the best from established sources, the book includes writing not typically recognised as 'heritage', but which, nevertheless, makes a valuable contribution to the debate about what heritage is, what it can do, and how it works and for whom. Including heritage perspectives from beyond the professional sphere, the book serves as a reminder that heritage is not just an academic concern, but a deeply felt and keenly valued public and private practice. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from other disciplines offers readers international views of the past and future of this growing field.
A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage offers a wider, more current and more inclusive overview of issues and practices in heritage and its intersection with museums. As such, the book will be essential reading for postgraduate students of heritage and museum studies. It will also be of great interest to academics, practitioners and anyone else who is interested in how we conceptualise and use the past.
Table of contents
Notes on contributors
Series preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sheila Watson, Amy Jane Barnes and Katy Bunning
Part I: Heritage contexts, past and present
Introduction to Part I
Amy Jane Barnes
- Heritage pasts and heritage presents: temporality, meaning and the scope of heritage studies
- Museum studies and heritage: independent museums and the ‘heritage debate’ in the UK
- People [extracts]
- The crisis of cultural authority
- Editorials: History Workshop Journal
- Hybrids
- Understanding our encounters with heritage: the value of 'historical consciousness'
- Weighing up intangible heritage: a view from Ise
- From monument to cultural patrimony: The concepts and practices of heritage in Mexico
- We come from the land of the ice and snow: Icelandic heritage and its usage in present day society
- Por la encendida calle antillana: Africanisms and Puerto Rican architecture
- Iconoclash in the age of heritage [extracts]
David C. Harvey
Anna Woodham
Alan Bennett
Tiffany Jenkins
Editorial Collective/Raphael Samuel
Raphael Samuel
Ceri Jones
Simon Richards
Cintia Velázquez Marroni
Guðrún D. Whitehead
Arleen Pabón
Peter Probst
Part II: Authenticity and tourism
Introduction to Part II
Sheila Watson
13. Touring the slave route: inaccurate authenticities in Bénin, West Africa
Timothy R. Landry
14. Steampunking heritage: How Steampunk artists reinterpret museum collections
Jeanette Atkinson
15. Why fakes?
Mark Jones
16. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
Walter Benjamin
17. After authenticity at an American heritage site
Eric Gable and Richard Handler
18. Makeover for Mont-Saint-Michel: a renovation project harnesses the power of the sea to preserve one of the world’s most iconic islands
Alexander Stille
19. Resonance and wonder
Stephen Greenblatt
20. ‘Introduction’ to In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
Regina Bendix
Part III: Emotions and materiality
Introduction to Part III
Sheila Watson
21. Invoking affect
Clare Hemmings
22. The archaeology of mind [extracts]
Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
23. 'The trophies of their wars': affect and encounter at the Canadian War Museum
Sara Matthews
24. Huddled masses yearning to buy postcards: the politics of producing heritage at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island National Monument.
Joanne Maddern
25. The Holocaust and the museum world in Britain: a study of ethnography
Tony Kushner
26. Senses of place, senses of time and heritage
Gregory John Ashworth and Brian Graham
27. Making heritage pay in the Rainbow Nation
Lynn Meskell
28. The concept and its varieties
Anthony Smith
29. Materiality matters: experiencing the displayed object
Sandra Dudley
30. Concepts of identity and difference
Kathryn Woodward
31. Emotional engagement in heritage sites and museums: ghosts of the past and imagination in the present
Sheila Watson
32. The Third World
Jeremy Black
33. Turkish delight: Antonio Gala's La pasión turca as a vision of Spain's contested Islamic heritage
Nicola Gilmour
34. ‘The cliffs are not the cliffs’: the cliffs of Dover and national identities in Britain, c.1750 – c.1950
Paul Readman
Part IV: Diversity and identity
Introduction to Part IV
Katy Bunning
35. Museums as intercultural spaces
Simona Bodo
36. Gradients of alterity: museums and the negotiation of cultural difference in contemporary Norway
Marzia Varutti
37. Museums in a global world: a conversation on museums, heritage, nation and diversity in a transnational age
Conal McCarthy, Rhiannon Mason, Christopher Whitehead, Jakob Ingemann Parby, André Cicalo, Philipp Schorch, Leslie Witz, Pablo Alonso Gonzalez, Naomi Roux, Eva Ambos and Cirai Rassool
38. Reflections on the Confluence Project: assimilation, sustainability, and the perils of a shared heritage
Jon Daehnke
39. Ethnic heritage for the nation: debating 'identity museums' on the National Mall
Katy Bunning
40. Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?
Neil Siberman
41. Un-placed heritage: making identity through fashion
Malika Kraamer and Amy Jane Barnes
Part V: Participatory heritage
Introduction to Part V
Katy Bunning
42. Research on community heritage: moving from collaborative research to participatory and co-designed research practice
Andrew Flinn and Anna Sexton
43. Beyond the rhetoric: negotiating the politics and realising the potential of community-driven heritage engagement
Corinne Perkin
44. From representation to participation: inclusive practices, co-curating and the voice of the protagonists in some Italian migration museums
Anna Chiara Cimoli
45. Museums, trans youth and institutional change: transforming heritage institutions through collaborative practice
Serena Iervolino
46. Embrace the margins: adventures in archaeology and homelessness
Rachael Kiddey and John Schofield
47. Developing dialogue in co‐produced exhibitions: between rhetoric, intentions and realities
Nuala Morse, Morag Macpherson and Sophie Robinson
48. Community engagement, curatorial practice and museum ethos in Alberta, Canada
Bryony Onciul
Part VI: Contested histories and heritage
Introduction to Part VI
Sheila Watson
49. Contested townscapes: the walled city as world heritage
Oliver Creighton
50. Reassembling Nuremberg, reassembling heritage.
Sharon Macdonald
51. Can there be a conciliatory heritage?
Erica Lehrer
52. Palimpsest memoryscapes: materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone
Paul Basu
53. Representing the China Dream: a case study in revolutionary cultural heritage
Amy Jane Barnes
54. Contested trans-national heritage: the demolition of Changi prison, Singapore
Joan Beaumont
55. The politics of community heritage: motivations, authority and control
Elizabeth Crooke
56. 'To make the dry bones live': Amédée Forestier’s Glastonbury Lake Village
James E. Phillips
57. ‘Introduction’ to Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place
Barbara Bender
58. Sensuous (re)collections: The sight and taste of socialism at Grūtas Statue Park, Lithuania
Gediminis Lankauskas
Index
Biography
Sheila Watson is an Associate Professor and Director of the MA/MSc in Heritage and Interpretation by Distance Learning in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.
Amy Jane Barnes is Research Associate in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, UK, a University Teacher at Loughborough University, UK, and an affiliate of King's College London.
Katy Bunning is a Lecturer and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.
"This new edition of People of the Earth continues the highly authoritative and well-written coverage of Brian Fagan’s thorough and accessible introduction to global (pre)history. Now with coauthor Nadia Durrani, the volume captures our humanity’s identity through deep time and our earthly space in a factual narrative readily intelligible to a broad readership. From our human origins 7 million years ago to the Shang Dynasty of China, we are taken on a time-traveling machine with numerous layovers, surprises and counterintuitive storylines."
Vernon L. Scarborough, University of Cincinnati, USA