A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage

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.

Introduction

Part I: Heritage contexts, past and present

Introduction to Part I






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]

Part II: Authenticity and tourism

Introduction to Part II

13. Touring the slave route: inaccurate authenticities in Benin, West Africa

14. Steampunking heritage: how Steampunk artists reinterpret museum collections

15. Why fakes?

16. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

17. After authenticity at an American heritage site

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

19. Resonance and wonder

20. ‘Introduction’ to In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies

Part III: Emotions and materiality

Introduction to Part III

21. Invoking affect

22. The archaeology of mind [extracts]

23. "The trophies of their wars": affect and encounter at the Canadian War Museum

24. Huddled masses yearning to buy postcards: the politics of producing heritage at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island National Monument

25. The Holocaust and the museum world in Britain: a study of ethnography

26. Senses of place, senses of time and heritage

27. Making heritage pay in the Rainbow Nation

28. The concept and its varieties

29. Materiality matters: experiencing the displayed object

30. Concepts of identity and difference

31. Emotional engagement in heritage sites and museums: ghosts of the past and imagination in the present

32. The Third World

33. Turkish delight: Antonio Gala's La pasión turca as a vision of Spain's contested Islamic heritage

34. ‘The cliffs are not the cliffs’: The cliffs of Dover and national identities in Britain, c.1750 – c.1950

Part IV: Diversity and identity

Introduction to Part IV

35. Museums as intercultural spaces

36. Gradients of alterity: museums and the negotiation of cultural difference in contemporary Norway

37. Museums in a global world: a conversation on museums, heritage, nation and diversity in a transnational age

38. Reflections on the Confluence Project: assimilation, sustainability, and the perils of a shared heritage

39. Ethnic heritage for the nation: debating 'identity museums' on the National Mall

40. Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?

41. Un-placed heritage: making identity through fashion

Part V: Participatory heritage

Introduction to Part V

42. Research on community heritage: Moving from collaborative research to participatory and co-designed research practice

43. Beyond the rhetoric: negotiating the politics and realising the potential of community-driven heritage engagement

44. From representation to participation: inclusive practices, co-curating and the voice of the protagonists in some Italian migration museums

45. Museums, trans youth and institutional change: transforming heritage institutions through collaborative practice

46. Embrace the margins: adventures in archaeology and homelessness

47. Developing dialogue in co‐produced exhibitions: between rhetoric, intentions and realities

48. Community engagement, curatorial practice and museum ethos in Alberta, Canada

Part VI: Contested histories and heritage

Introduction to Part VI

49. Contested townscapes: the walled city as world heritage

50. Reassembling Nuremberg, reassembling heritage.

51. Can there be a conciliatory heritage?

52. Palimpsest memoryscapes: materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone

53. Representing the China Dream: A case study in revolutionary cultural heritage

54. Contested trans-national heritage: the demolition of Changi Prison, Singapore

55. The politics of community heritage: motivations, authority and control

56. "To make the dry bones live": Amédée Forestier’s Glastonbury Lake Village

57. ‘Introduction’ to Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place

58. Sensuous (re)collections: the sight and taste of socialism at Grūtas Statue Park, Lithuania

Index