Performing Nordic heritage
Subtitle: everyday practices and institutional culture
By: edited by Peter Aronsson and Lizette Gradén
Series: The Nordic experience
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burllington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781409448341; 9781409448358
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Social aspects; Popular culture; Historic preservation; Museums; Protection; Cultural property; Scandinavian National characteristics; Scandinavians; Scandinavian Americans; Ethnicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Performing Nordic Heritage : Institutional Preservation and Popular Practices / Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén; title: Walking Nordic : Performing Space, Place and Identity / Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch; title: "Something in the Air" : Performing the North within Norden / Katla Kjartansdóttir and Kristinn Schram; title: A Windmill and a Vikinghjem : The Importance of Visual Icons as Heritage Tropes among Danish-Americans / Hanne Pico Larsen; title: Negotiating Local, National and Nordic Identities through Commemorations / Ingemar Lindaräng & Torbjörn Eng; title: Banal Nordism : Recomposing an Old Song of Peace / Stuart Burch; title: "Nordic" as Border Country Rhetoric : Danish versus German in South Jutland Museums and Memorial Culture / Olav Christensen; title: Performing Nordic Spaces in Scandinavian-American Museums : Gift-exchange, Volunteerism, and Curatorial Practice / Lizette Gradén; title: The Geopolitics of Distinction : Negotiating Regional Spaces in the Baltic Museums / Eglė Rindzevičiūtė; title: Sweden versus Norden in Nordiska museet / Magdalena Hillström; title: Performing the Nordic in Museums : Changing Ideas of Norden and their Political Implications / Peter Aronsson; title: Conclusion: Performing Nordic Spaces in Everyday Life and Museums / Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén.