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Scandinavian museums and cultural diversity / edited by Katherine Goodnow and Haci Akman

Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxv, 266 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Additional Creators
Goodnow, Katherine J., Akman, Haci, and Unesco
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Contents
Intro; Scandinavian museums and cultural diversity; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; The construction of identities; Today's museum; Section I. Museums, national minorities and the indigenous; Chapter 1. Indigenous peoples and national minorities in Norway; Chapter 2. Cultural diversity at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm; Chapter 3. Sámi museums and cultural heritage; Chapter 4. Return of the prodigal son; Chapter 5. An appetite whetted; Chapter 6. The Danish Jewish Museum; Chapter 7. Cultural minorities in Danish museums; Chapter 8. Kven culture and history in museum terms, Section II. Museums and "new migrants"Chapter 9. The Museum of World Culture; Chapter 10. Seeking the multicultural in the arts in Finland; Chapter 11. Norwegian Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?; Chapter 12. Embroidered history; Chapter 13. Norwegian Kurdish Virtual Museum; Chapter 14. As in a mirror; Chapter 15. The Multicultural Centre, Botkyrka, Sweden; Section III. Nation and heritage; Chapter 16. Cultural heritage, cultural diversity and museums in Sweden; Chapter 17. Intangible cultural heritage and ethnographicmuseum practice in a global perspective, and Chapter 18. Museums and collective identityChapter 19. Pluralism, cultural heritage and the museum; Chapter 20. Representing community; Chapter 21. Museums and related institutions on the FaroeIslands; Chapter 22. Renegotiating identity in the National Museumof Iceland; Chapter 23. Exhibition forms and influential circumstances; Notes on the contributors; Index
Summary
"Museums across the world are facing the task of capturing, reflecting and representing the notion of complex identities; personal, religious and ethnic. Narratives of national allegiances are being slowly replaced and supplemented by indigenous and minority voices providing a more complex understanding of diversity especially where intangible heritage is called on as a witness. The approach taken by Scandinavian museums in response to this challenge highlights the hybrid forms of cultural diversity and how they interrelate and work together."
"By bringing together debates and discussions of identity and diversity, this volume offers a particular insight into a broad geographic region and its diverse people, from the Sami and the limit to new migrants. It also presents a set of historical views on the formation of national museums and their contested perceptions of identity. Whilst developing new arguments and furthering an ongoing debate, it offers museum curators possible ways forward."--Jacket
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ISBN
9781789204049 (electronic bk.)
1789204046 (electronic bk.)
9781845455774 (pbk.)
1845455770
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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