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Title Art, anthropology, and contested heritage : ethnographies of TRACES / edited by Arnd Schneider
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 190 pages)
Contents Working with TRACES / Arnd Schneider -- The scattered colonial body : serendipity and neglected heritage in the heart of Rome / Arnd Schneider -- The palm, the couscous, the face / Leone Contini -- Research on research on research : on reflexive relationality / Matei Bellu -- Framing faces : a conversation between Razvan Anton and Julie Dawson led by Matei Bellu / Razvan Anton, Julie Dawson, and Matei Bellu -- An ethnography of process : following the realization of the Awkward Objects of Genocide project / Katarzyna Maniak -- Awkward Objects of Genocide project : difficult encounters with Holocaust folk art : a hybrid record of research and exhibition planning / Roma Sendyka, Erica Lehrer, Wojciech Wilczyk, and Magdalena Zych -- From something to nothing : a peculiar ethnography of a peculiar art project / Blaž Bajič -- Casting of death / Domestic Research Society -- Dead images : multivocal engagements with human remains / Aglaja Kempinski -- Disposing of dead images : reflections on contentious heritage as toxic waste / John Harries with Tal Alder and Aglaja Kempinski -- Participatory approaches to places of unresolved heritage : working with the communities of Long Kesh/Maze / Laura McAtackney -- Dispersed presence : Long Kesh/Maze prison, its artefacts as catalysts of testimony / Martin Krenn and Aisling O'Beirn
Summary "This book presents innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage resulting from ethnographic and artistic research by the TRACES project (an interdisciplinary research project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme involving a collaboration between institutional partners in 11 European countries). The case studies in this volume critically assess and evaluate how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of these ethnographic case studies is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity. Through combining studies of heritage within museums, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, heritage and museum studies, and visual culture"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2019)
Subject Traces (Project)
Refugees as artists -- European Union countries
Arts and society -- European Union countries -- Case studies
Art and anthropology -- European Union countries -- Case studies
Ethnology -- European Union countries -- Case studies
Cultural property -- European Union countries
Group identity -- European Union countries
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Art and anthropology
Arts and society
Cultural policy
Cultural property
Ethnology
Group identity
Refugees as artists
SUBJECT European Union countries -- Cultural policy
Subject European Union countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Schneider, Arnd, 1960- editor.
LC no. 2019981402
ISBN 9781350088115
1350088110
9781350088122
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