Representing the Nation: Heritage, Museums, National Narratives, and Identity in the Arab Gulf States (Routledge Research in Museum Studies)

By: Pamela Erskine-Loftus and Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla and Victoria Penziner Hightower

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Synopsis: The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of ‘national museums’, institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of national identity projection via consideration of their motivations, implications (current and future), possible historical backgrounds, official and unofficial meanings, and meanings for both the user/visitor and the multiple creators. The book responds to, due to the importance placed on tradition, heritage and national identity across all the states of the Peninsula, and the growth of re-imagined and new museums, the need for far greater discussion and research in these areas.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781317429852
Related ISBNs:: 9781315691350, 9781138913578, 9781138913578, 9780367193089, 9780367193089
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/11/20
Copyrighted By:: Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Victoria Penziner Hightower and Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Pamela Erskine-Loftus
Edited by:: Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla
Edited by:: Victoria Hightower