🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£34.49
RRP: £42.95
Save £8.46 (20%)
Dispatched within 3-5 working days.

Curating America

Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past

By (author) Richard Rabinowitz
Format: Hardback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, United States
Published: 1st Nov 2016
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 33mm
Weight: 720g
ISBN-10: 146962950X
ISBN-13: 9781469629506
Barcode No: 9781469629506
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To help answer these questions, noted public historian Richard Rabinowitz examines the evolution of public history over the last half-century and highlights the new ways we have come to engage with our past. At the heart of this endeavor is what Rabinowitz calls "storyscapes"-landscapes of engagement where individuals actively encounter stories of past lives. As storyscapes, museums become processes of narrative interplay rather than moribundstorage bins of strange relics. Storyscapes bring to life even the most obscure people-making their skills of hands and minds "touchable," making their voices heard despite their absence from traditional archives, and making the dilemmas and triumphs of their lives accessible to us today. Rabinowitz's wealth of professional experience-creating over 500 history museums, exhibitions, and educational programs across the nation-shapes and informs the narrative. By weaving insights from learning theory, anthropology and geography, politics and finance, collections and preservation policy, and interpretive media, Rabinowitz reveals how the nation's best museums and historic sites allow visitors to confront their sense of time and place, memories of family and community, and definitions of self and the world while expanding their idea of where they stand in the flow of history.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£34.49
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Be the first to review this item. Submit your review now