Living history museums : undoing history through performance
- Title
- Living history museums : undoing history through performance / Scott Magelssen.
- Published by
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 207 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- The dilemmas of contemporary living museum historiography in theory and practice -- The progressive development narrative of living museum history -- Progressive histories : major works -- The progressive development narrative in practice -- (In)authentic revolutions : time, space, and living history museums -- Plimoth Plantation -- Colonial Williamsburg -- Old Sturbridge Village -- Storytelling vs. scientific discourse --Toward a new genealogy of living museum performance -- A historiography of immanence -- Defining an episteme -- An emergence within a shifting field -- Capitalizing on the past- capitalizing on loss -- Social history and the trajectory of living museum performance -- The naturalistic ideal -- Living history as pleasure -- Performance as historiography at living history museums -- The historiography of performance -- The field -- Missed opportunities -- Alternatives to the naturalistic mode -- Post-tourists and living museum performance.
- Call number
- IAG 07-2765
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-197) and index.
- Author
- Magelssen, Scott, 1974-
- Title
- Living history museums : undoing history through performance / Scott Magelssen.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-197) and index.
- Connect to:
- LCCN
- 2006029941
- Other standard identifier
- 9780810858657
- ISBN
- 0810858657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780810858657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- IAG 07-2765