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The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums

Author : Guðrún D. Whitehead
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351036009
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums written by Guðrún D. Whitehead and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway. Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of present-day society, culture, and politics and the role of museums in this meaning-making process. Demonstrating that the Viking myth is present in collective memory and plays an important role in the construction and modification of collective, national, and personal identities, the book analyses this process through the framework of museums and their visitors. Identifying museums as places where heritage, identity and social norms are affirmed and reflected upon, Whitehead demonstrates that all countries use their Viking heritage to define their identity on a local and international level - through tourist attractions such as museums and other Viking-related monuments and merchandise. Providing readers with an insight into Vikings and their social relevance today, The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums will be of great interest to academics and researchers across the social and human sciences. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals working in museums around the world.

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums

Author : Gudrun D. Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032821245
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums written by Gudrun D. Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, England and Norway. Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of present-day society, culture, and politics and the role of museums in this meaning-making process. Demonstrating that the Viking myth is present in collective memory and plays an important role in the construction and modification of collective, national, and personal identities, the book analyses this process through the framework of museums and their visitors. Identifying museums as places where heritage, identity and social norms are affirmed and reflected upon, Whitehead demonstrates that all countries use their Viking heritage to define their identity on a local and international level--through tourist attractions such as museums and other Viking-related monuments and merchandise. Providing readers with an insight into Vikings and their social relevance today, The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums will be of great interest to academics and researchers across the social and human sciences. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals working in museums around the world."--

Digging into the Dark Ages

Author : Howard Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789695287
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Digging into the Dark Ages written by Howard Williams and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.

We Were Vikings

Author : Kimberly Elizabeth Susan Consroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book We Were Vikings written by Kimberly Elizabeth Susan Consroe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performing Nordic Heritage

Author : Lizette Gradén
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317082362
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Performing Nordic Heritage written by Lizette Gradén and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of heritage takes place in prestigious institutions such as museums and archives, in officially sanctioned spaces such as jubilees and public monuments, but also in more mundane, ephemeral and banal cultural practices, such as naming of phenomena, viewing exhibitions or walking in the countryside. This volume examines the performance of Nordic heritage and the shaping of the very idea of Norden in diverse contexts in North America, the Baltic and the Nordic countries and examines the importance of these places as sites for creating and preserving cultural heritage. Offering rich perspectives on a part of Europe which has not been the centre of discussion in the Anglophone world, this volume will be of value to a wide readership, including cultural historians, museum practitioners, policy-makers and scholars of heritage, ethnology and folkloristics.

Tourism Mobilities

Author : Mimi Sheller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134302649
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Tourism Mobilities written by Mimi Sheller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don’t. Arranged in four distinct parts, Sheller and Urry consider: Performing Paradise Performances of Global Heritage Remaking Playful Places New Playful Places. Incorporating a wide array of empirical research and innovative international case studies, this fascinating book illuminates the tourist performance phenomenon: from Eco-tourism on the beach to shopping in Hong Kong, from the making of 'Cool Reykjavik' to tourism in high-rise suburbs in Paris, and from Inca heritage to medical tourism. Edited by two world authorities in tourism studies, this revealing book deploys a range of theories related to the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences in order to analyze the contingent and networked nature of how places are stabilized as fit for playful performances. Well-written and researched, with coherent analysis and presentation, this book will appeal to academics, students and those interested in the complex character of global change.

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

Author : E. Waterton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113729356X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research written by E. Waterton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.

Ancestral North

Author : Ross Hagen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666917575
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Ancestral North written by Ross Hagen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music offers a detailed exploration of Nordic ritual folk music, a music scene focused on the revival of ancient folkways and archaic music that has found remarkable popularity around the globe. Once the domain of Viking reenactors and neopagan practitioners, the niche sonic and visual aesthetics of this music have found widespread visibility through a new generation of popular films, television series, and video games. The authors argue that many of these musical and media products connect with longstanding cultural attitudes about the Nordic region that conceive of it as wild, exotic, and dangerous, while also being a place of honor, community, and virtue. As such, the Nordic region and its music often becomes a vessel for reactionary escapes from all manner of modern discontentment. However, the authors also posit that spending time re-creating the music of an imaginary past offers participants the possibility for engagement and re-enchantment in the multicultural present.

Vikings, the Barbaric Heroes

Author : Gudrun Drofn Whitehead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Vikings, the Barbaric Heroes written by Gudrun Drofn Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vikings

Author : James Graham-Campbell
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vikings written by James Graham-Campbell and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1980 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Performing History

Author : Susan Elizabeth Berry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Performing History written by Susan Elizabeth Berry and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy

Author : Jon Sundbo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848444001
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy written by Jon Sundbo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Experiences in the Experience Economy focuses on the creation of experience from a business perspective. In doing so, the book establishes a more solid foundation for making better and more complex analyses of experience creation, paving the way for the development of analytically based and innovative experiences in experience firms and institutions. The contributors emphasise that experience creation is not an easy task with a straightforward formula and examine how marketed experiences are constructed, developed and innovated. Presenting diverse and innovative perspectives, the contributors discuss and present models for how experiences are designed, produced and distributed. With its cross-disciplinary approach to experience creation, this fascinating study will appeal to researchers and academics of business administration, services, culture and tourism.

Peopling Insular Art

Author : Cynthia Thickpenny
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789254574
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Peopling Insular Art written by Cynthia Thickpenny and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Insular Art (IIAC) is the leading forum for scholars of the visual and material culture of early medieval Ireland and Britain, including manuscript illumination, sculpture, metalwork, and textiles, and encompassing the work of Anglo-Saxon-, Celtic- and Norse-speaking artists. The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the eighth IIAC, which took place in Glasgow 11-14 July 2017. The theme of IIAC8 - Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception - was intended to focus attention on those who commissioned, created, and engaged with Insular art objects, and how they conceptualised, fashioned, and experienced them (with ‘engagement’ covering not only contemporary audiences, but later medieval and modern ones too). The twenty-one articles gathered here reflect the diverse ways in which this theme has been interpreted. They demonstrate the intellectual vibrancy of Insular art studies, its international outlook, its interdiscplinarity, and its openness to innovative technologies and approaches, while at the same time demonstrating the strength and enduring value of established methodologies and research practices. The studies collected here focus not only on made objects, but on the creative processes and intellectual decisions which informed their making. This volume brings Insular makers – the illuminators, pattern-makers, rubricators, carvers, and casters – to the fore.

Sex Museums

Author : Jennifer Tyburczy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631538X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sex Museums written by Jennifer Tyburczy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 29th annual Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies All museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality—particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed—and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality. Most museum exhibits, she argues, assume that white, patriarchal heterosexuality and traditional structures of intimacy, gender, and race represent national sexual culture for their visitors. Sex Museums illuminates the history of such heteronormativity at most museums and proposes alternative approaches for the future of public display projects, while also offering the reader curatorial tactics—what she calls queer curatorship—for exhibiting diverse sexualities in the twenty-first century. Tyburczy shows museums to be sites of culture-war theatrics, where dramatic civic struggles over how sex relates to public space, genealogies of taste and beauty, and performances of sexual identity are staged. Delving into the history of erotic artifacts, she analyzes how museums have historically approached the collection and display of the material culture of sex, which poses complex moral, political, and logistical dilemmas for the Western museum. Sex Museums unpacks the history of the museum and its intersections with the history of sexuality to argue that the Western museum context—from its inception to the present—marks a pivotal site in the construction of modern sexual subjectivity.

Vikings

Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714123370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Vikings written by Gareth Williams and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America and Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. Throughout their existence, the Vikings encountered a remarkable diversity of peoples and inhabited an expansive and changing world. This beautifully illustrated book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe and the Islamic World and how they created a lasting historical impact on our world today. Highlighting an extraordinary range of objects and featuring new discoveries by archaeologists and metal-detector users, the cultural connections between Europe, Byzantium and the Middle East are explored in absorbing detail. Vikings: life and legend is published to complement a major exhibition developed jointly by the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen and the Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Berlin.

Images, Representations and Heritage

Author : Ian Russell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387322167
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Images, Representations and Heritage written by Ian Russell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins a discourse on the implications of performing archaeology in a world dominated by modern trends of mass production, mass replication and representation of cultural forms, and mass consumption of images of the past. The contributors explore the extent to which contemporary consumption of mass-produced replicas, simulations, images and experiences of the past cause a crisis of representation of the past. Eschewing romantic beliefs, it discusses what archaeology can do.

Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia

Author : Marianne Hem Eriksen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108757022
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia written by Marianne Hem Eriksen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, constructional solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark boundaries, yet also serve as potent ritual objects. For this study, Eriksen analyzes and interprets the archaeological data of house remains from Viking Age Norway, which are here synthesized for the first time. Using social approaches to architecture, she demonstrates how the domestic space of the Viking household, which could include masters and slaves, wives and mistresses, children and cattle, was not neutral. Quotidian and ritual interactions with, through, and orchestrated by doorways prove to be central to the production of a social world in the Viking Age. Eriksen's book challenges the male-dominated focus of research on the Vikings and expands research questions beyond topics of seaborne warriors, trade, and craft.