Re-enacting the past: vivifying heritage ‘again’

Daugbjerg, Mads; Eisner, Rivka Syd; Knudsen, Britta Timm

doi:10.1080/13527258.2014.939426

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“…It also establishes the experience of heritage as immediate and stresses the importance of engaged participation (Gumbrecht, 2004;Tomlinson, 2007). Further, it supports the idea that meanings that emerge within time gaps are not merely interpretive, but experiential (Daugbjerg et al, 2014;Lash and Lury, 2007), which asserts my earlier analysis of heritage as an embodied practice. Finally, following Daugbjerg et al (2014), I suggest that the practice of heritage as a form of performative work transcends the mind-body binary.…”

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Sense of the past: historic house museums in Toronto, Canada, as forms of an urban heterotopia

Naumova¹

2021

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Historic house museums allow for reconceptualization of the meaning of tangible objects around us. We establish this new relationship with materiality through our sensory bodies. We conceive of ourselves differently and allow ourselves to move and behave in ways that are not acceptable in the world outside of the museum. We perform our new selves with permission granted by the sense of place that cannot be understood other than through embodied experience–of things, of selves, of the environment that brings it all together. In the coming together of all these elements in the immediate, intimate present, the notion of the past is defined as cultural heritage as mediated through the historic house museum curatorial work and space. I approach historic house museums as socially created and lived kinds of spatiality and sites of social practices and focus on the experiences of people that spend considerable amounts of time there–the museum staff. As a researcher, I have inserted myself within the environment of a historic house museum and attempted to open it to social inquiry through various ways of being within it–observing, writing, interviewing, interacting, sensing, entering it and leaving it. I have carried out a form of phenomenological ethnography, which included a two-year autoethnographic study at the Mackenzie House Museum, in Toronto, Canada, where I volunteered in the position of an interpreter and a historic cook; 24 participant observation visits to other historic house museums in Toronto; and 13 in-depth unstructured interviews with museum staff from various historic house museum sites in the city. The three methods addressed the key conceptual clusters–emplacement, materiality, and performance, which form three analytical chapters of the dissertation. The dissertation positions historic house museums as forms of heterotopia that function as contestations of the accepted spatial, social, and temporal norms within an urban environment. These museums come forth as attempted reconstructions of anthropological places, in the form of domestic sites that assert significance of material manifestations of familial relations and historical heritage. These sites are immersive environments bridge the gap in the current experience of body, time, and space.

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Sense of the past: historic house museums in Toronto, Canada, as forms of an urban heterotopia

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2021

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“…For instance, the amateur curator of a WWII vehicle talked about how he felt like he has, through his studies of the history of the vehicle, come to know the people who operated it during the war. These amateur engagements may, in some ways, be compared to the 'direct' engagement with the past, a desire to get 'into' the past or in a sense know it 'from the inside', which is arguably important to participants of historical re-enactments (see Daugbjerg, Eisner, and Knudsen 2014).…”

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‘I have better stuff at home’: treasure hunting and private collecting of World War II artefacts in Finnish Lapland

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Almost all archaeologists encounter collectors of different kinds of artefacts at some point in their career, whether it is the private collectors of financially valuable antiquities or 'amateur archaeologists' who have amassed personal collections of local finds. In our research into the material legacy of the German presence in northern Finland during World War II, we have encountered both artefact hunters (primarily but not exclusively metal detecting enthusiasts) and artefact collectors (sometimes the same people) with a specific interest in military remains from this location and period. In this article, we explore these alternative perspectives on collecting, and frame them within the context of treasure hunters, militaria collectors and other history hobbyists, and their relationship to the 'official' heritage managers and curators.

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“…These events habitually encompass fantasy role play by their participants. Reenactment events are organized by different stakeholders, however mostly by private persons or associations interested in the recognition, remembrance and popularization of the past and heritage connected with history (Daugbjerg et al, 2014 ; McCalman & Pickering, 2010 ).…”

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Heritage event as tourist attraction: the case of Dymarki Swietokrzyskie, Poland

2021

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While previous research has focused on heritage visitor attractions few studies have examined visitation to and experience of ancient industrial sites as geographical tourist spaces. This article profiles visitation to Dymarki Swietokrzyskie, a heritage reenactment of past events and ancient industrial traditions of iron smelting held in the Polish town of Nowa Slupia. Visitor survey analysis showed visitors perceive the event is a significant tourist attraction. It attracts tourists, is an element of the local heritage industry and contributes to the development of tourism services as part of the heritage tourism sector. The event in Nowa Slupia forms a tourist attraction based on heritage used for creating a contemporary heritage event, evoking specific tourist behaviors and therefore bringing economic profits. Creating the heritage tourism experience here was possible due to the influence of the mix of the elements in a heritage tourism behavioral model consisting of: politics, conservation, authenticity, impact management and interpretation. Examination of the event confirmed the validity of this framework for the analysis of heritage site visitation as well as providing practical insights for both site managers and future researchers.

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Re-enacting the past: vivifying heritage ‘again’

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Sense of the past: historic house museums in Toronto, Canada, as forms of an urban heterotopia

Sense of the past: historic house museums in Toronto, Canada, as forms of an urban heterotopia

‘I have better stuff at home’: treasure hunting and private collecting of World War II artefacts in Finnish Lapland

Heritage event as tourist attraction: the case of Dymarki Swietokrzyskie, Poland

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