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From Antiquities to Heritage: Transformations of Cultural Memory

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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne EriksenSeries:Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Tr #1Publish date:5/1/2016Pages:188
Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781785332050ISBN-10:1785332058UPC:9781785332050Book Category:Social Science, Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Museum Studies, EuropeBook Topic:Nordic CountriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC9BCV79JS

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present. This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge about early modern antiquarianism.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781785332050ISBN-10:1785332058UPC:9781785332050Book Category:Social Science, Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:Museum Studies, EuropeBook Topic:Nordic CountriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC9BCV79JS
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Anne Eriksen is a Professor in Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Norway, and an expert on collective memory and forms of historical knowledge. Among her recent publications are Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries (ed. with. J.V. Sigurdsson, 2009) and Museum. En kulturhistorie (2009).

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Anne Eriksen

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