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Informationen zum Autor Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta Zusammenfassung Explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing an account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures. This collection is suitable for those interested in heritage and museum studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Place and Identity 1. What role can digital heritage play in the re--imagining of national identities? England and its Icons! Rhiannon Mason and Zelda Baveystock 2. Locating art: the display and construction of place identity in art galleries! Chris Whitehead 3. Place! local distinctiveness and local identity: ecomuseum approaches in Europe and Asia! Gerard Corsane! Peter Davis and Donatella Murtas 4. Representing identities at local municipal museums: cultural forums or identity bunkers? Marta Anico 5. Heritage according to scale! Llorenç Prats Part 2: Remembering and Forgetting6.Unsettling memories: intervention and controversy over difficult public heritage! Sharon Macdonald 7. Public silences! private voices: memory games in a maritime heritage complex! Elsa Peralta 8. The banalization and the contestation of memory in postcommunist Poland! Barbara Misztal 9. A landscape of memories: layers of meaning in a Dublin park!Kate Moles Part 3: Domination and Contestation 10. Labor and leisure at Monticello: or repr.esenting race instead of class at an inadvertent white identity shrine! Eric Gable 11. The ancient city walls of Great Benin: colonialism! urban heritage and cultural identity in contemporary Nigeria! Flora Kaplan 12. The past in the present: towards a politics of care at the National Trust of Australia -WA! Andrea Witcomb 13. Yoruba identity and western museums: ethnic pride and artistic representations! Anna Catalini
