Vernacular museum: communal bonding and ritual memory transfer among displaced communities
| Autor: | Maja Mikula |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
History 060101 anthropology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Museology Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Face (sociological concept) Vernacular Analogy 06 humanities and the arts Conservation Cultural heritage Aesthetics Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Masculinity Law Mainstream 0601 history and archaeology Everyday life 050703 geography Amateur media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Heritage Studies. 21:757-772 |
| ISSN: | 1470-3610 1352-7258 |
| Popis: | Eclectically curated and largely ignored by the mainstream museum sector, vernacular museums sit at the interstices between the nostalgic and the future-oriented, the private and the public, the personal and the communal. Eluding the danger of becoming trivialised or commercialised, they serve as powerful conduits of memory, which strengthen communal bonds in the face of the ‘flattening’ effects of globalisation. The museum this paper deals with, a vernacular museum in Vanjärvi in southern Finland, differs from the dominant type of the house museum, which celebrates masculinity and social elites. Rather, it aligns itself with the small amateur museums of everyday life called by Angela Jannelli Wild Museums (2012), by analogy with Lévi-Strauss’ concept of ‘pensée sauvage’. The paper argues that, despite the present-day flurry of technologies of remembering and lavishly funded memory institutions, there is no doubt that the seemingly ‘ephemeral’ institutions such as the vernacular museum, dependent so much on performance, oral storytelling, living bodies and intimate interaction, nevertheless play an important role in maintaining and invigorating memory communities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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