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The Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus
Contributor(s): Stylianou-Lambert, Theopisti (Author), Bounia, Alexandra (Author)
ISBN: 161132968X     ISBN-13: 9781611329681
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Archaeology
- Business & Economics | Museum Administration And Museology
- Reference
Dewey: 069
LCCN: 2015046699
Series: Heritage, Tourism & Community
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 274 pages
 
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This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings, museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building. Using key Cypriote archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and art museums as examples, this book:

  • provides a multifaceted and deeper understanding of how politics, conflict, national agendas, and individual initiatives can shape museums and their narratives;
  • discusses how these forces contribute to the creation of, and conflict over, national, community and personal identities;
  • examines how museums use inclusion and exclusion in their collections, exhibitions, objects and interpretive material as a way of selectively constructing collective memories.

This book will be an important resource for museum professionals, as well as scholars interested in the effects of politics on museums and interpretations of the past.