The book is the result of a nationwide survey in the UK that measured public use of and attitudes to the past, archaeology and collecting.
Author: Nick Merriman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781315432953
Category: Social Science
Page: 200
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The book is the result of a nationwide survey in the UK that measured public use of and attitudes to the past, archaeology and collecting. The author reviews this research in the light of contemporary theory on ideology and representation and goes on to develop a convincing explanation for the failure of museums and similar institutions to connect with the majority of the public. Merriman marshals the empirical and theoretical work to make a powerful case for a new approach to attract the under served populations; one which encourages a view of the museum as a service helping its public to see, understand and engage with its own personal, local and multi-faceted past.
6.3 Perspectives Beyond studying the impact of a different ray diameter or target virtual size, ... This could be of interest to interact with physical architectural models, which are usually placed behind a glass case.
Author: David Lamas
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783030293871
Category: Computers
Page: 782
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The four-volume set LNCS 11746–11749 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in September 2019. The total of 111 full papers presented together with 55 short papers and 48 other papers in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 385 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: Part I: accessibility design principles; assistive technology for cognition and neurodevelopment disorders; assistive technology for mobility and rehabilitation; assistive technology for visually impaired; co-design and design methods; crowdsourcing and collaborative work; cyber security and e-voting systems; design methods; design principles for safety/critical systems. Part II: e-commerce; education and HCI curriculum I; education and HCI curriculum II; eye-gaze interaction; games and gamification; human-robot interaction and 3D interaction; information visualization; information visualization and augmented reality; interaction design for culture and development I. Part III: interaction design for culture and development II; interaction design for culture and development III; interaction in public spaces; interaction techniques for writing and drawing; methods for user studies; mobile HCI; personalization and recommender systems; pointing, touch, gesture and speech-based interaction techniques; social networks and social media interaction. Part IV: user modelling and user studies; user experience; users’ emotions, feelings and perception; virtual and augmented reality I; virtual and augmented reality II; wearable and tangible interaction; courses; demonstrations and installations; industry case studies; interactive posters; panels; workshops.
62 Merriman, Beyond the Glass Case; Belcher, Exhibitions in Museums. 63 Woollard, V. (2004), 'Caring for the Visitor'. In P. Boylan (ed.), Running a Museum: A Practical Handbook. Paris: International Council of Museums.
Author: Faye Sayer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350051324
Category: History
Page: 352
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The 2nd edition of Public History: A Practical Guide provides a fresh examination of history as practiced in its various worldly guises and contexts. It analyses the many skills that historians require in the practice of public history and looks at how a range of actors, including museums, archives, government agencies, community history societies and the media/digital media, make history accessible to a wider audience in a variety of ways. Faye Sayer's exciting new edition includes: * Brand new chapters on 'Restoration and Preservation' and history and the working world * Substantial additions covering the growing fields of digital history and history in politics * More images, figures and international case studies from the US, Australia, the UK, Europe and Asia * 'Personal Reflection' sections from a range of industry experts from around the world * Historiographical updates and significant revisions throughout the text * Expanded online 'Public History Toolkit' resource, with a range of new features Public History: A Practical Guide delivers a comprehensive outline of this increasingly prevalent area of the discipline, offering a distinctly global approach that is both accessible and engaging in equal measure. Finally, it explores future methodological possibilities and can be used as a reference point for professional development planning in the sectors discussed. This is the essential overview for any student wanting to know what history means beyond the classroom.
Merriman, N. (1991) Beyond the Glass Case: The Past the Heritage and the Public in Britain, Leicester: Leicester University Press. Middleton, V.T.C. (1990) New Visions for Independent Museums In the UK, Chichester: Association of ...
Author: Kevin Walsh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134896677
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 212
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The 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past is exploited for commercial profit. In The Representation of the Past, Kevin Walsh examines this international trend and questions the packaging of history which serves only to distance people from their own heritage. A superficial, unquestioning portrayal of the past, he feels, separates us from an understanding of our cultural and political present. Here, Walsh suggests a number of ways in which the museum can fulfill its potential - by facilitating our comprehension of cultural identity.
Nick Merriman, Beyond the Glass Case: The Past, the Heritage and the Public in Britain (Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press, 1991); Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American ...
Author: Viviane Gosselin
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774830645
Category: Art
Page: 312
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Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers. Using case studies from a Canadian context, the contributors to this collection reflect on the challenges in maintaining and developing museums as meaningful places of memory and learning. Discussions of museum practice and historical consciousness – how our understanding of the past shapes our sense of the future – consider the modern museum’s narratives and pedagogical responsibilities and how museums continue to inform our sense of history.
When the couple moves from where the animals are displayed in the open to see the ones behind glass, they peer into the case with the big cats. The camera angle is then changed so that the vantage point is from behind the cats in the ...
Author: Matthew Jones
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786478071
Category: Social Science
Page: 325
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In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Some time travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century. What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media's relationship to time? This collection of new essays--the first to address time travel across a range of media--answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception and Source Code.
However, the Museum proved a hit with a far wider constituency. Thus, in his 1857 annual report, William Hooker 12 Moser, Wondrous Curiosities, 2006. 13 Moser, Wondrous Curiosities, 1–9. 14 Nick Merriman, Beyond the Glass Case: The Past ...
Author: Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317051732
Category: Social Science
Page: 304
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’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical categories. This volume makes an original and compelling contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic range this book will appeal to a broad readership including historical geographers and specialists in history of science and medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.
22 See reports of survey data in English Heritage Monitor (1992), 45; (1994), 48; similar findings in Myerscough, Economic Importance, 29-30; cf. the higher figures in Merriman, Beyond the Glass Case, 47-52. 23 As early as 1977, ...
Author: Peter Mandler
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300078692
Category: History
Page: 523
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Challenging the prevailing view of a modern English culture besotted with its history and aristocracy, Mandler portrays instead a continuously changing society where both intellectual and popular attitudes have only recently turned to admiration.
Beyond the Glass Case: the past, heritage and the public. Leicester: Leicester University Press. Prentice, R. 1993. Tourism and Heritage Attractions. London: Routledge. Reynolds, P. 1979. Iron Age Farm: the Butser experiment.
Author: Philippe Planel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134828289
Category: Social Science
Page: 328
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The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education. Using various case studies, the contributors frankly discuss the aims, problems and mistakes experienced with reconstruction. They encourage the need for on-going experimentation and examine the various uses of the sites; political, economical and educational.
Beyond the glass case: The past, the heritage and the public in Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press. —. 2004. Introduction: Diversity and dissonance in public archaeology. In Public archaeology, ed. Nick Merriman, 1–17.
Author: Laurajane Smith
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781527554887
Category: Social Science
Page: 250
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Archaeology has, on the whole, tended to dominate the development of public policies and practices applicable to what is often referred to as “heritage”. This book aims to examine the conflation of heritage with archaeology that has occurred as a result. To do so, it asks whether archaeology can usefully contribute to critical understandings of heritage, which, the volume contends, must consider heritage both in terms of what it is and the cultural, social and political work it does in contemporary societies. Archaeologists have been very successful in protecting what they perceive to be their database—a success that owes much to the development and maintenance of a suite of heritage management practices that work to legitimize their privileged access to, and control of, that database. However, is archaeological data actually heritage? Moreover, does archaeological knowledge offer a meaningful reflection of “the historic environment”, in terms of the uses, values and associations it carries for the various and different communities or publics that engage with that environment/heritage? The volume brings together academic and field archaeologists, academics from heritage studies and community activists from the UK and Europe more generally to debate these issues.
Merriman , N. 1991 Beyond the Glass Case . Leicester University Press , Leicester , United Kingdom . Montangero , Jacques 1996 Understanding Changes in Time : The Development of Diachronic Thinking in 7–12 - year - old Children .
Author: M. Elaine Davis
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759100438
Category: Education
Page: 189
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History and archaeology education is highly valued among modern societies that seek to educate their youth about the past. Yet these areas have been_for the most part_slow to employ the latest advances in education theory and practice. Former classroom teacher and science education specialist M. Elaine Davis presents an informed and useful text that demonstrates the importance of contemporary learning theory and educational research to the development of effective programs in both formal and informal history and archaeology education. Chapters cover teaching and history education theory, and apply this to various case studies and program examples. This text will prove a much-valued tool for school teachers, museum educators, archaeologists, and historians_challenging and aiding educators to assess and improve their respective programs.
The New Museology, pp.149–71, London: Reaktion Books —— 1991 Beyond the Glass Case: the Past, the Heritage and the Public in Britain, London: Leicester University Press Miles, Roger et al. 1988 The Design of Educational Exhibits (2nd ed ...
Author: Sharon Macdonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000184150
Category: Social Science
Page: 224
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What goes on behind closed doors at museums? How are decisions about exhibitions made and who, or what, really makes them? Why are certain objects and styles of display chosen whilst others are rejected, and what factors influence how museum exhibitions are produced and experienced? This book answers these searching questions by giving a privileged look behind the scenes at the Science Museum in London. By tracking the history of a particular exhibition, Macdonald takes the reader into the world of the museum curator and shows in vivid detail how exhibitions are created and how public culture is produced. She reveals why exhibitions do not always reflect their makers original intentions and why visitors take home particular interpretations. Beyond this local context, however, the book also provides broad and far-reaching insights into how national and global political shifts influence the creation of public knowledge through exhibitions.
Merriman, N. 1991 Beyond the Glass Case. Leicester: Leicester University Press. Moussouri, T. 1997 Family Agendas and Family Learning in Hands-On Museums. (Unpublished Doctoral Thesis) Leicester: University of Leicester.
Author: Nena Galanidou
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781789201840
Category: Social Science
Page: 324
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This book brings together archeologists, historians, psychologists, and educators from different countries and academic traditions to address the many ways that we tell children about the (distant) past. Knowing the past is fundamentally important for human societies, as well as for individual development. The authors expose many unquestioned assumptions and preformed images in narratives of the past that are routinely presented to children. The contributors both examine the ways in which children come to grips with the past and critically assess the many ways in which contemporary societies and an increasing number of commercial agents construct and use the past.
Beyond the Glass Case. New York: Leicester UP, 1991. Print. Monk, Claire. “The British Heritage Film and Its Critics.” Critical Survey 7.2 (1995): 116–24. Print. ———. “The British Heritage-Film Debate Revisited.
Author: Ryan Trimm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351754316
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 350
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Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Inheritance has been an important metaphor for characterizing cultural and political traditions since the 1970s, but one criticized for its conservatism and apparent disinheritance of "new" Britons. Engaging with contemporary literary and cinematic texts, the book interrogates metaphoric resonances: that bestowing past, receiving present, and transmitted bounty are all singular and unified; that transmission between past and present is smooth, despite heritage depending on death; that the past enjoins the present to conserve its legacy into the future. However, heritage offers an alternative to modern market-driven relations, transactions stressing connection only through a momentary exchange, for bequest resembles gift-giving and connects past to present. Consequently, heritage contains competing impulses, subtexts largely unexplored given the trope’s lapse into cliché. The volume charts how these resonances developed, as well as charting more contemporary aspects of heritage: as postmodern image, tourist industry, historic environment, and metaculture. These dimensions develop the trope, moving it from singular focus on continuity with the past to one more oriented around different lines of relation between past, present, and future. Heritage as a trope is explored through a wide range of texts: core accounts of political theory (Locke and Burke); seminal documents within historic conservation; phenomenology and poststructuralism; film and television (Merchant-Ivory, Downton Abbey); and a broad range of contemporary fiction from novelists including Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Ackroyd, and Helen Oyeyemi.
We might ask about the continuities and shifts in who gets exhibited to whom: who gets put inside the glass case as it were ... in the UK is: • Merriman, N. (1991) Beyond the Glass Case: The Past, the Heritage and the Public in Britain.
Author: Miles Ogborn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781444118964
Category: Science
Page: 224
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Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and accessible approach to the sources, theories and methods of cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent cultural geographers, all of whom are experienced researchers, this book is a fully illustrated guide to methodological approaches in cultural geography. In order to demonstrate the practice of cultural geography each chapter combines the following features: ·Practical instruction in using one of the main methods of cultural geography (e.g. interviewing, interpreting texts and visual images, participatory methods) ·An overview of a key area of concern in cultural geography (e.g. the body, national identity, empire, marginality) ·A nuts and bolts description of the actual application of the theories and methods within a piece of research With the addition of boxed definitions of key concepts and descriptions of research projects by students who devised and undertook them, Cultural Geography in Practice is an essential manual of research practice for both undergraduate and graduate geography students.
The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ... Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond. London: Routledge. ... Beyond the Glass Case: The Past, the Heritage and the Public.
Author: Laurajane Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317497509
Category: Social Science
Page: 338
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Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to understand the impact and consequences of professional heritage and museological practices. The concept of registers of engagement is introduced to assess variations in how visitors use museums and sites that address national or dissonant histories and the political consequences of their use. Visitors are revealed as agents in the roles cultural institutions play in maintaining or challenging the political and social status quo. Heritage is, Smith argues, about people and their social situatedness and the meaning they, alongside or in concert with cultural institutions, make and mobilise to help them address social problems and expressions of identity and sense of place in and for the present. Academics, students and practitioners interested in theories of power and affect in museums and heritage sites will find Emotional Heritage to be an invaluable resource. Helping professionals to understand the potential impact of their practice, the book also provides insights into the role visitors play in the interplay between heritage and politics.
Beyond the glass case: The past, the heritage, and the public in Britain. Leicester: Leicester University Press. Ndlovu, N. (2009). Access to rock art sites: A right or qualification? South African Archaeological Bulletin, 64(189), ...
Author: John H. Jameson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783030143275
Category: Social Science
Page: 460
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Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expanding discussions about the mechanisms and consequences of community participation. This trend has brought to the forefront debates about who owns the past, who has knowledge, and how heritage values can be shared more effectively with communities who then ascribe meaning and value to heritage materials. Globalization forces have created a need for contextualizing knowledge to address complex issues and collaboration across and beyond academic disciplines, using more integrated methodologies that include the participation of non-academics and increased stakeholder involvement. Successful programs provide power sharing mechanisms and motivation that effect more active involvement by lay persons in archaeological fieldwork as well as interpretation and information dissemination processes. With the contents of this volume, we envision community archaeology to go beyond descriptions of outreach and public engagement to more critical and reflexive actions and thinking. The volume is presented in the context of the evolution of cultural heritage studies from the 20th century “expert approach” to the 21st century “people-centered approach,” with public participation and community involvement at all phases of the decision-making process. The volume contains contributions of 28 chapters and 59 authors, covering an extensive geographical range, including Africa, South America, Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, and Australasia. Chapters provide exemplary cases in a growing lexicon of public archaeology where power is shared within frameworks of voluntary activism in a wide diversity of cooperative settings and stakeholder interactions.
Merriman , Nick ( 1991 ) Beyond the Glass Case : The Past , the Heritage and the Public in Britain , Leicester University Press . Parissien , Steven ( 1991 ) The rights and wrongs of restoration : interpreting the past , Apollo ...
It is derived from the emotional feeling, the empathy, we feel from the close personal sense of the past. ... Results from the interviews conducted by Nick Merriman, published in Beyond the Glass Case (1991), concerning the public's ...
Author: John Carman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134843541
Category: Art
Page: 280
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Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts involved in these many areas. The contributors focus on the principles and practice of management in the 1990s, covering such crucial aeas as the management of contract and field archaeology, heritage management, marketing, law and information technology. The resulting volume is important and informative reading for archaeologists and heritage managers, as well as planners, policy makers and environmental consultants.
Author: Pro-Provost European Affairs and Professor of History Wendy DaviesPublish On: 2002
MERRIMAN , N. 1991 : Beyond The Glass Case . The Past , the Heritage and the Public in Britain ( Leicester ) . MERRIMAN , N. 1997 : The Peopling of London Project . In Hooper - Greenhill , E. ( ed . ) , Cultural Diversity .
Author: Pro-Provost European Affairs and Professor of History Wendy Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197262554
Category: Religion
Page: 627
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Twenty-six leading scholars from around the world have come together to celebrate the strengths, the energies and the sheer intellectual excitement of their discipline. They unashamedly proclaim that over the last hundred years archaeology has transformed itself from a genteel antiquarianpursuit, deeply rooted in the classical tradition, to a rigorous and demanding discipline, spanning the humanities and the sciences, yet at the same time one widely accessible to the public at large. The contributors show how our understanding of the past has changed, reveal the exciting ideas under current debate, and offer their visions of the future.The result is a remarkable overview of world archaeology, focusing on new and unexpected themes at the cutting edge of the discipline.
