Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Biographic Data
| ID | 505458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
| SIGNATURE | KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4786-8283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 421 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Anticipatory Heritage
Folklorists are uniquely positioned at the nexus of historical and heritage consciousness, with a keen eye for emergent cultural practices, often ephemeral, which may draw on tradition or represent something entirely new. Collecting the present, or what has been called contemporary collecting or rapid-response collecting, is called for in anticipation of a future when the present, experienced as already historical, will have become past
AHR Conversation
Since 2006, the AHR has published eleven “Conversations” on a wide range of topics. By now, we have a standard format: the Editor convenes a group of scholars with an interest in the topic who, via e-mail over the course of several months, conduct a conversation that is then lightly edited and footnoted, finally appearing in the December issue. The aim is to provide readers with a wide-ranging and accessible consideration of a topic at a high lev…
Marshall Sklare Award Lecture—An Ethnographer in the Museum
A Theatre of History
Opened in Warsaw in April 2013, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews tells the story of the thousand years of continuous Jewish presence in this part of the world, a history largely overshadowed, understandably, by the Holocaust. While the exhibition avoids a master narrative, it enacts a theatre of history founded on 12 metahistorical principles outlining POLIN’s curatorial, pedagogic, and performative storytelling strategies
Inside the Museum
The reception of the core exception of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which opened in Warsaw on 28 October 2014, is the focus of this essay. While eschewing a master narrative, the exhibition is guided by metahistorical principles and a distinctive approach to mode of narration. Both have proven controversial as evidenced by answers to the following questions. What is the difference between a history of Polish Jews and a history of P…
New Jewish museums in post-communist Europe
In 2013 Tamar Latzman, a young Israeli artist, held an art residency in Vilnius. The city, known as the “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” was once her family's home. Although she went to the city as an art
Appendix
Two decades after it was first published, a powerful oral epic from Madagascar is once again available to a global readership, in print and online.How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar is the story of a story; a compelling Malagasy tale of love and power, brought to life by Lee Haring.Throughout this carefully updated text, Haring is our expert guide and witness.He provides helpful historical background and deep exegesis; but he…
The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world—or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world—and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance
Towards a Post-Disciplinary Jewish Subject
By inviting contributions dealing with any kind of visual material from any disciplinary perspective, Images opens up the possibility that art might be studied from any disciplinary perspective and that visual culture might be studied from an art historical point of view. Given the orphan status of Jewish art and visual culture as an object of study, how might the study of Jewish visual culture alter the fields brought to bear on it? Herein lays …
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
The Corporeal Turn
The Corporeal Turn Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies, Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies What has been called the "corporeal turn" in recent Jewish studies is provoking anxiety. If "Judaism's mind has been more interesting and more influential than Judaism's body," a distinction worthy of study in its own right, critics are calling for "a swing back to its more traditional moo…
Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production1
Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories
The catastrophe of 9/11 transformed life in New York City. Grassroots responses were spontaneous, improvised, and ubiquitous. Every surface was blanketed with candles, flowers, flags, and missing persons' posters that became the focal point of shrines memorializing the missing and presumed deceased. The catastrophe produced a series of equivocal situations: Kodak moment or surrogate body? Crime scene or tourist attraction? Missing person notice o…
Destination Culture
Journal Article Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 326 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-20467-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-20966-4.) Get access Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Destination Culture
Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects—and people—are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collect…
Folklore's Crisis
The field of folklore is experiencing topic drift, as the gap widens between the name of the field and what it now signifies. This article traces the history of a mutating disciplinary subject and its relationship to the discipline's formation, institutionalization, and name. Three themes are of special importance: folklore's temporality or the problem of a contemporary subject, orality and the question of technology, and folklore as a mode of cu…
Alicia Rios
Cardiff, 1994. (Photo by Jaakko Rahola) In the damp grayness of a Welsh winter, we found ourselves digging for our food. It was time for lunch on the third day of Points of Contact: Performance, Food, and Cookery, a conference organized by the Center for Performance Research in Cardiff (13-16 January 1994). Responding to the summons please be prompt, we assembled at 1:30 P.M. for a performance buffet. Its creator, Alicia Rios, was ready for an af…
Confusing Pleasures
Theorizing Heritage
On Difference
Maasai on the Lawn
Spaces of Dispersal
Mistaken Dichotomies
Destination Culture
Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects—and people—are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collect…
Maasai on the Lawn
Theorizing Heritage
Spaces of Dispersal
Folklore's Crisis
The field of folklore is experiencing topic drift, as the gap widens between the name of the field and what it now signifies. This article traces the history of a mutating disciplinary subject and its relationship to the discipline's formation, institutionalization, and name. Three themes are of special importance: folklore's temporality or the problem of a contemporary subject, orality and the question of technology, and folklore as a mode of cu…
Mistaken Dichotomies
Anticipatory Heritage
Folklorists are uniquely positioned at the nexus of historical and heritage consciousness, with a keen eye for emergent cultural practices, often ephemeral, which may draw on tradition or represent something entirely new. Collecting the present, or what has been called contemporary collecting or rapid-response collecting, is called for in anticipation of a future when the present, experienced as already historical, will have become past
The Corporeal Turn
The Corporeal Turn Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies, Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies What has been called the "corporeal turn" in recent Jewish studies is provoking anxiety. If "Judaism's mind has been more interesting and more influential than Judaism's body," a distinction worthy of study in its own right, critics are calling for "a swing back to its more traditional moo…
Inside the Museum
The reception of the core exception of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which opened in Warsaw on 28 October 2014, is the focus of this essay. While eschewing a master narrative, the exhibition is guided by metahistorical principles and a distinctive approach to mode of narration. Both have proven controversial as evidenced by answers to the following questions. What is the difference between a history of Polish Jews and a history of P…
New Jewish museums in post-communist Europe
In 2013 Tamar Latzman, a young Israeli artist, held an art residency in Vilnius. The city, known as the “Jerusalem of Lithuania,” was once her family's home. Although she went to the city as an art
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
Destination Culture
Journal Article Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 326 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-20467-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-20966-4.) Get access Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
On Difference
Man Sues over Warlock Charge
A Parable in Context
Speech Play
From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. These essays describe a variety of speech play genres, formulate the "rules" for play with language, and discuss the relevance of speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.
Speech Play
The Hasidim
Contraband
In the fifth century B.C., the Jews of Persia were saved from a plot to murder them. Their deliverance, narrated in the Scroll of Esther, is celebrated each year on the holiday of Purim in the Hebrew month of Adar (February/March). The holiday includes a variety of performances: masquerade, pranks, intoxication and general licentiousness pervade the holiday and contribute to the inversion of the social order that is its hallmark. One major perfor…
Di folkloristik
Tourism in New York City Introduction
Mistaken Dichotomies
On Difference
Maasai on the Lawn
Spaces of Dispersal
Theorizing Heritage
Confusing Pleasures
Alicia Rios
Cardiff, 1994. (Photo by Jaakko Rahola) In the damp grayness of a Welsh winter, we found ourselves digging for our food. It was time for lunch on the third day of Points of Contact: Performance, Food, and Cookery, a conference organized by the Center for Performance Research in Cardiff (13-16 January 1994). Responding to the summons please be prompt, we assembled at 1:30 P.M. for a performance buffet. Its creator, Alicia Rios, was ready for an af…
Folklore's Crisis
The field of folklore is experiencing topic drift, as the gap widens between the name of the field and what it now signifies. This article traces the history of a mutating disciplinary subject and its relationship to the discipline's formation, institutionalization, and name. Three themes are of special importance: folklore's temporality or the problem of a contemporary subject, orality and the question of technology, and folklore as a mode of cu…
Destination Culture
Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects—and people—are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collect…
Destination Culture
Journal Article Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 326 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-20467-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-520-20966-4.) Get access Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Gretchen Sullivan Sorin Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories
The catastrophe of 9/11 transformed life in New York City. Grassroots responses were spontaneous, improvised, and ubiquitous. Every surface was blanketed with candles, flowers, flags, and missing persons' posters that became the focal point of shrines memorializing the missing and presumed deceased. The catastrophe produced a series of equivocal situations: Kodak moment or surrogate body? Crime scene or tourist attraction? Missing person notice o…
Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production1
The Corporeal Turn
The Corporeal Turn Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies, Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies What has been called the "corporeal turn" in recent Jewish studies is provoking anxiety. If "Judaism's mind has been more interesting and more influential than Judaism's body," a distinction worthy of study in its own right, critics are calling for "a swing back to its more traditional moo…
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
Towards a Post-Disciplinary Jewish Subject
By inviting contributions dealing with any kind of visual material from any disciplinary perspective, Images opens up the possibility that art might be studied from any disciplinary perspective and that visual culture might be studied from an art historical point of view. Given the orphan status of Jewish art and visual culture as an object of study, how might the study of Jewish visual culture alter the fields brought to bear on it? Herein lays …
Jewish children's museum a virtual roundtable on material religion
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