The Political Museum Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus

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Synopsis

This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings, museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building. Using key Cypriote archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and art museums as examples, this book:

provides a multifaceted and deeper understanding of how politics, conflict, national agendas, and individual initiatives can shape museums and their narratives;
discusses how these forces contribute to the creation of, and conflict over, national, community and personal identities;
examines how museums use inclusion and exclusion in their collections, exhibitions, objects and interpretive material as a way of selectively constructing collective memories.
This book will be an important resource for museum professionals, as well as scholars interested in the effects of politics on museums and interpretations of the past.

Book details

Series:
Heritage, Tourism, and Community
Author:
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Alexandra Bounia
ISBN:
9781315521046
Related ISBNs:
9781611327588, 9781315521053, 9781611329698, 9781611329698, 9781611329681, 9781611329681, 9781315521053, 9781611329698, 9781611329681, 9781315521053, 9781611329698, 9781611329681
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
274
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-04-19
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2016
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies