Memory, Mythmaking, and Museums: Constructive Authenticity and the Primitive Blues Subject

King, Stephen

doi:10.1080/10417940600846029

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“…see, for example, Ashton (2012), Blair, Dickinson and Ott (2010), Denton (2005), Flath (2002, Gans (2002), Kelly and Hoerl (2012), King (2006), Noy (2008), Vivian (2010) and Zagacki and Gallagher (2009). folk tradition and modernity as progress in Chinese museums can help elucidate how 'modernity' is constructed and deployed in the service of national identity and political power (Kolås 2003: 18). Perhaps few other 'place-identities' than Tibet -with its lush symbolic imaginary juxtaposing portrayals of mystical 'Shangri La' with feudal corruption and impoverishment -reveal the complicated interrelations among history, geography, tradition, culture, ideology, modernity, display values and accompanying aesthetics.…”

Section: Displaying Tibet: Museums Otherness Nationalism and Heritagementioning

confidence: 97%

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Keränen¹,

Dodge²,

Conley³

2015

Journal of Curatorial Studies

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This article investigates the representational interplay between tradition and modernity in three museums aboutTibet: the Tibet Museum in Lhasa, China; the Qinghai Tibetan Culture Museum in Xining, China; and the Tibet Museum in Dharamsala, India. Analyzing how each museum displays Tibetan heritage, three modalities of representing Tibetan culture and Tibet's disputed 'liberation' are identifiedtriumphant modernization, spectacular sacralization, and catastrophic witnessing. Each modality reproduces, counters and complicates dominant Chinese narratives concerning Tibet's history, culture and political status. Also discussed are the implications of these practices for displaying contested cultural narratives in contemporary China. Relations between the People's Republic of China's Han majority andChina's 56 officially recognized cultural minorities -who together comprise less than nine per cent of China's total population (CIA 2014) -raise significant questions about the aesthetics and politics of cultural representation and display. Take, for instance, the case of Tibetan political and cultural sovereignty -one of the lightning rod 'three Ts' that,

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Section: Displaying Tibet: Museums Otherness Nationalism and Heritagementioning

confidence: 97%

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Keränen¹,

Dodge²,

Conley³

2015

Journal of Curatorial Studies

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“…King argued a museum's exhibits "inevitably reflects the organization's financial resources, accessibility of artifacts, space availability, the personal tastes of the curator(s), and other seemingly invisible, yet highly important factors, including satisfying the museum's target market/ visitors." 20 Museum curators make choices about how to present the past and relate it to the experiences of visitors entering the exhibit space. For example, an exhibit might connect with and apply its lessons of the past to current issues, serving as a place of advocacy, as Patricia Davis has concluded some African American history museums have done.…”

Section: Presidential Museums and Collective Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Remembering and Re-Creating the Great Debates of 1960: Presidential Libraries as Sites for Political Argumentation

Drury

Herbeck

2015

Communication Quarterly

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“…Communication scholars have done exemplary work in this regard. In particular, we note the number of insightful analyses of how museums are rhetorically constructed in ways that seek to guide visitor experiences while including and excluding selective discursive fragments of memory (e.g., Armada, 1998; Dickinson et al, 2005, 2006; Hasian, 2004; Hubbard & Hasian, 1998; Katriel, 1994; King, 2006; Prosise, 1998, 2003). In general, and not just in the analysis of museums, we believe rhetorical scholars should be commended for their close textual analyses of how places of memory selectively re‐present the past.…”

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Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places

Aden

Han

Norander

et al. 2009

Communication Theory

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This article outlines a theory of re-collection as a means of enhancing and enriching the study of collective memory. Re-collection seeks to generate insights into two underdeveloped threads of collective memory research: (a) its processual and dynamic nature and (b) its largely emplaced character. In particular, this article argues that places of memory are not finished texts, but sites of re-collection in which individuals and groups selectively cull and organize re-collected versions of the past. Grounded in Michael McGee's concept of rhetorical fragments, the theory of re-collection involves attending to discursive fragments of memory that circulate within and around the memory site-as well as the fragments brought to the site by individuals and collectives. Re-collection thus requires analytical tools beyond those traditionally used in rhetorical criticism-as is illustrated in a case study proposal for exploring the process of re-collection surrounding the Space Window in Washington National Cathedral.

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Memory, Mythmaking, and Museums: Constructive Authenticity and the Primitive Blues Subject

Cited by 41 publications

References 22 publications

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Modernizing Traditions on the Roof of the World: Displaying ‘Liberation’ and ‘Occupation’ in Three Tibet Museums

Remembering and Re-Creating the Great Debates of 1960: Presidential Libraries as Sites for Political Argumentation

Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places

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