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Author Daugbjerg, Mads.

Title Borders of belonging : experiencing history, war and nation at a Danish heritage site / Mads Daugbjerg.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Museums and collections ; volume 5
Museums and collections ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. borders of belonging: investigating landscapes of Danishness today -- Dybbøl and the Danish nation : history and context -- Out of sight : reconsidering the high modern museum -- The banalities of being Danish : national identity at the castle museum -- Sensing 1864 at the battlefield centre -- The fate of the nation at the battlefield centre -- Danish heritage today : cosmopolitan nationalism and the reappearance of the romantic -- Conclusion. Paradoxes of modern belonging : reassembling heritage, nation and experience.
Summary In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, "the nation" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions - a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center - it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally "make sense" of the war h.
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Subject Sønderborg slot (Sønderborg, Denmark)
Sønderborg slot (Sønderborg, Denmark)
Schleswig-Holstein War (1864)
Schleswig-Holstein War, 1864 -- Campaigns -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Historiography -- Social aspects -- Denmark.
Historiography -- Social aspects.
Denmark.
Chronological Term 1864
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Daugbjerg, Mads. Borders Of Belonging. Berghahn Books 2014 9780857459763
ISBN 9780857459770 (electronic book)
0857459775 (electronic book)
1306465230 (electronic book)
9781306465236 (electronic book)
9780857459763
0857459767