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Artifacts and Allegiances - How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display

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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. By comparing museums in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, Peggy Levitt offers a fresh perspective on the role of the museum in shaping citizens. Taken together, these accounts tell the fascinating story of a sea change underway in the museum world at large

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. The Bog and the Beast: The View of the Nation and the World from Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg
2. The Legislator and the Priest: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Boston and New York
3. Arabia and the East: How Singapore and Doha Display the Nation and the World
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
List of Plates
Image Credits
Index

About the author

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 of Global Citizenship Creation, Religion on the Edge, God Needs No Passport, The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation, and The Transnational Villagers.

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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. By comparing museums in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, Peggy Levitt offers a fresh perspective on the role of the museum in shaping citizens. Taken together, these accounts tell the fascinating story of a sea change underway in the museum world at large.

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"Of considerable interest to scholars, museum professionals, and others, this ambitious, well-written, and significant book belongs in large public, academic, and special libraries. Highly recommended for interdisciplinary museum and visual arts collections."

Product details

Authors Peggy Levitt, Levitt Peggy
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2015
 
EAN 9780520286078
ISBN 978-0-520-28607-8
No. of pages 268
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries

ART / Museum Studies, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies

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