Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present. This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge about early modern antiquarianism.
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'"The case studies supply the overall argument with a desirable empirical specificity; they deepen and enrich it, while they at the same time challenge common generalizations, current theories and habitual ways of thinking. This works on two parallel levels: the empirical cases are lifted out of their immediate contexts and used to examine and discuss theoretical arguments, and then carried back to shed new light on their historical settings." ? Nordic Museology
"Eriksen is a lucid writer. Her case studies are highly informative and reveal a detailed knowledge of Norway's past that few scholars could match." ? Museum Anthropology
"...a very important book on the difference between antiquities and heritage and the different sense of time, history, and chronology involved." ? Lynn A. Hunt, UCLA
"The author succeeds in bridging the gap between the history of antiquarianism and the present field of heritage studies... explain[ing]...the transformation of the relations to time from the 18th century up to the present...There is a good balance between the empirical part of the enquiry and its theoretical dimension." ? Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris
"It is a very sophisticated and well written manuscript on an important topic within the humanities." ? Birgitta Svensson, Stockholm University
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 11 mm
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978-1-78533-205-0 (9781785332050)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Anne Eriksen is a Professor in Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Norway, and an expert on collective memory and forms of historical knowledge. Among her recent publications are Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries (ed. with. J.V. Sigurdsson, 2009) and Museum. En kulturhistorie (2009).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Research Questions and Perspectives
Between Heritage Studies and Antiquarianism
The Scope and Content of the Book
Chapter 1. Heritage and Cultural Memory
Regimes of Historicity
The Cult of Monuments
Chapter 2. In Search of Ancient Heroes
Topographies and the Space of Experience
What's in a Name?
The Implications of Space
Hallingdal and Thrace
A Familiar Realm
Chapter 3. Antiquarianism and Epistemic Virtue
Facts from Stones
From Mortar to Grammar
Epistemic Virtues
Schoning, the Historian
Chapter 4. Ruins and Time
Rudera: Decay, Vestiges and Remains
Ruin Romanticism
Sensibility and National Glory
Chapter 5. Mediaeval Monuments
The Discovery of the Stave Churches
Material Evidence - a New Approach
J.S. Dahl and the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian Ancient Monuments
History and the Nation
A Change of Regimes?
Chapter 6. Museums to Preserve Our Past
Systems, Specimens and Antiquities
National Awakening
Between Temporality and Topography
Conflicts and Invisibilities
Museums and History
Chapter 7. Monuments and Memorials
From Royal Glory to Civic Virtue
Standing Stones and Universal Values
All of Us - Resistance as a Collective Project
Time Witnesses
At the Museum
Chapter 8. Cultural Property, Cultural Heritage
Bring Him Home!
From Property to Heritage
Unique, but Not Particular
Chapter 9. Heritage Today
Cultural Heritage in the Age of Digitalisation - Heritage Year 2009
The Heritage of Everyday Life
Doing Heritage
From Change to Choice - by Way of a Conclusion
References
Index
