Making Histories In Museums

by Kavanagh, Gaynor

• ISBN13: 9780826479266
• ISBN10: 082647926X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This exciting new series recognizes the tremendous potential of museum-based histories and the ways in which they can engage people with ideas about the past. People encounter and use museums on many different levels - personal, social and intellectual - and access meanings that best fit their agendas. Histories in museums can stimulate the imagination, provoke discussion and increase our ability to question what we know. From this it can be deduced that history in museums is as much about the present as it is about the past; as much about how we feel as about what we know; as much about who we are as about who we have been. The first volume in the series, Making Histories in Museums, examines museological features, but deals particularly with hte historiographical issues that have presiously been underplayed. Each contributor looks at theoretical frameworks within a specific field of study, using case studies and comparisons of practice.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
1 Making Histories, Making Memories	1	(14)
Gaynor Kavanagh
2 Time Heals: Making History in Medical Museums	15	(15)
Ken Arnold
3 Making Rural Histories	30	(12)
Jonathan Bell
4 Why Not Invent the Past We Display in Museums?	42	(12)
Anthony D. Buckley
5 Trying To Be an Honest Woman: Making Women's Histories	54	(12)
Elizabeth Carnegie
6. Making Family Histories in the National Portrait Gallery, Australia	66	(14)
Julia Clark
7 African Americans, History and Museums: Preserving African American History in the Public Arena	80	(12)
Spencer R. Crew
8 Making Histories of African Caribbeans	92	(13)
Alissandra Cummins
9 Cleaning Up the Coal-Face and Doing Out the Kitchen: The Interpretation of Work and Workers in Wales	105	(11)
Kath Davies
10 Hard Men, Hard Facts and Heavy Metal: Making Histories of Technology	116	(15)
Lawrence Fitzgerald
11 Making City Histories	131	(12)
David Fleming
12 Travellers' Boots, Body-Moulding, Rubber Fetish Clothes: Making Histories of Sub-cultures	143	(9)
Amy de la Haye
13 Making Histories of Wars	152	(11)
Simon Jones
14 Making Histories of Sexuality	163	(13)
Mark Liddiard
15 Making Culturally Diverse Histories	176	(12)
Nick Merriman and Nima Poovaya-Smith
16 Making Histories of Religion	188	(12)
Mark O'Neill
17 Making Histories from Archaeology	200	(16)
Janet Owen
18 History and Folklore	216	(12)
James Rattue
19 Making the History Curriculum	228	(12)
John Reeve
20 Shadows and Sacred Geography: First Nations History-Making from an Alberta Perspective	240	(18)
Michael Ross and Reg Crowshoe
21 Making Children's Histories	258	(13)
Brian W. Shepherd
Index	271