Tammy S. Gordon

Private History in Public (eBook, ePUB)

Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759119369
• Artikelnr.: 38484490

Autorenporträt

By Tammy S. Gordon - Foreword by Harold Skramstad

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction: Historical Display
Commerce
and Community Toward a New Typology of Historical Exhibition in the United States Community Exhibition: History
Identity
and Dialogue Entrepreneurial Exhibition: Historical Display and the Small Business Tradition Vernacular Exhibition and the Business of History Local History
Global Economy: The Functions of History Exhibits in the Settings of Daily Life