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The Museum as a Ritual Site
Mary Bouquet, Nuno Porto
ISBN: 9781571815217
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
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This volume explores a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize the sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that often make use of museums in unexpected ways.
For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that make use of museums in often unexpected ways.
| ISBN | 157181521X | | DEWEY | 069.5 | | ISBN13 | 9781571815217
(What's this?) | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Publisher | Berghahn Books | | Pages | 240 | | Imprint | Berghahn Books | | Volumes | 001 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | Oxford | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2005 | | Series title | New Directions in Anthropology | | Library of Congress | AM | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Introduction: science, magic and religion: the ritual processes of museum magic by Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto | | 1 | | 1 | | Memorialising the future : the museum of science and industry in Manchester by Penelope Harvey | | 29 | | 2 | | Unwrapping mummies and telling their stories : Egyptian mummies in museum rhetoric by Anna Wieczorkiewicz | | 51 | | 3 | | Congo-vision by Barbara Saunders | | 75 | | 4 | | The scourge of Chief Kansabala : the ritual life of two Congolese masterpieces at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (1884-2001) by Boris Wastiau | | 95 | | 5 | | Paradise in the making at Artis Zoo, Amsterdam by Natasha Silva | | 119 | | 6 | | The natural magic of Monte San Giovanni : authority, authenticity and ritual in Sardinia by Tracey Heatherington | | 141 | | 7 | | The performance of heritage in a reconstructed, post-apartheid museum in Namibia by Ian Fairweather | | 161 | | 8 | | Haunted art : visiting an exhibit in Weimar by Barbara Wolbert | | 182 | | 9 | | Enchantment and its dilemmas : the museum as a ritual site by Sharon Macdonald | | 209 |
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