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Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display
Peggy Levitt
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Description for Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display
Paperback. Takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 color. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 180 x 253 x 16. Weight in Grams: 578.
What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators, and policymakers; descriptions of current and future exhibitions; and inside stories about the famous paintings and iconic objects that define collections across the globe, this work provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. ... Read more
What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators, and policymakers; descriptions of current and future exhibitions; and inside stories about the famous paintings and iconic objects that define collections across the globe, this work provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520286078
SKU
V9780520286078
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99-22
About Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Senior Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where she codirects the Transnational Studies Initiative. In 2015, she is a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute. Her books include Books, Bodies, and Bronzes: Comparative Sites ... Read more
Reviews for Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display
An illuminating study that will be of interest to academics and museum professionals working in the field today. Publishers Weekly Ambitious, well-written, and significant. Library Journal Experimental - interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, self-critical, heterodox - approaches to art will have to be tried out if an audience for history, which is only as alive as our sense of ... Read more