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1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-189) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Dream spaces, memories and museums -- What is memory? -- Remembering and forgetting -- Memory and life stages -- Memory in late life -- Remembering and the society of others -- The art of listening -- Oral history and museums -- Recording memories -- Working with testimony -- Dynamics of interviewing -- Collections of objects, or memories? -- Collecting memories and objects -- Reminiscence and the older adult -- Working with reminiscence -- Working with the memory bearers -- Bearing witness -- Memories, dream spaces and the visit -- Dreaming the rational -- Memory spaces, dreams and museums. |
| Summary |
The dream space, writes Sheldon Annis, "is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum." In Memory and the Museum, Gaynor Kavanaugh argues that "dream spaces" are the point at which our inner and outer experiences meld. During the museum visit, memory and the present cease to be disparate but fuse into one singular experience. Drawing from such fields as behavioral gerontology, applied psychology, and historiography, Kavanaugh employs research from North America, Australia, and Europe to provide a critical and conceptual exploration into museums and t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Museums -- Philosophy.
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Museums -- Philosophy. |
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Museums -- Social aspects.
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Museums -- Social aspects. |
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Museums -- Environmental aspects.
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Museums -- Environmental aspects. |
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Museums. |
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Memory (Philosophy) |
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Memory -- Social aspects.
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Memory -- Social aspects. |
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Memory. |
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Learning, Psychology of.
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Learning, Psychology of. |
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Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kavanagh, Gaynor. Dream spaces. London ; New York : Leicester Univ. Press, ©2000 0718502078 9780718502072 (DLC) 99043639 (OCoLC)42061153 |
| ISBN |
9780567605047 (electronic book) |
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0567605043 (electronic book) |
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0718502078 (hardback) |
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0718502280 (paperback) |
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9780718502072 |
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