Deindustrialization and Museumification

From Exhibited Memory to Forgotten History

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9767241
AutoresOctave Debary (0000-0003-1045-9870, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales de Paris, LAHIC laboratory (Laboratory of Anthropology and History of Cultural Institutions, CNRS)., autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen595
Número1
Páginas122-133
Fecha de publicación2004-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716204266630
OpenAlexW2113675041
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas1

This ethnographic study of the creation of a museum in Le Creusot (France) provides an analysis of the heritage industry that emerged in the wake of the demise of a family company around which the town was built. This museum was a reaction to the passing of an age when industrial and urban environments were intrinsically linked. Through this description of how the past is collected and recollected in a museum, this article attempts to determine if this duty of remembrance is not, to a certain extent, a strategy of forgetfulness. Is cultural regeneration—the staging of history fading into oblivion—our society’s sole response to industrial regeneration

Archaeology · Art · Cultural heritage · Deindustrialization · Demise · Duty · Ethnography · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration