Materialized identities on the 'hidden frontier
Ethnographic museum policies in the Italian Tyrol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giovanni Kezich (Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina, San Michele all’Adige, Trentino, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 429-440 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183511424198 |
| OpenAlex | W1982790891 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The establishment of a large museum focusing on local identity is influenced by many aspects of the current political scenario, deeply affecting the general orientation and intended meaning of its exhibits. Such has been the case for the Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina, founded in 1968 by the ethnographer Giuseppe Šebesta, and based in the vicinity of Cole and Wolf's celebrated and much contended 'hidden frontier' between Germanic and Romance worlds in the Italian Alps. Yet local identity is often elusive and easily eschews immediate reduction to material embodiments, as the intricacies of museum politics in the context of the local dialectics of cultural identification demonstrate
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Frontier · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Literature · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |