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Discussions about Home and Identity at a Social History Museum

Moussouri, T; Vomvyla, E; (2015) Discussions about Home and Identity at a Social History Museum. Archaeology International , 18 pp. 97-112. 10.5334/ai.1810. Green open access

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Abstract

Despite an increased interest in how societies produce, present and interpret the past, empirical studies of how people make sense of and use the past in their everyday life are less common in public history. Using the museum and the home as a social, cultural and physical setting, this paper explores how people use material culture to make sense of their recent past by (re)constructing personal, family and community histories both in museum exhibitions and through everyday engagements at home. We use two case studies: The West Indian Front Room – Memories and Impressions of Black British Homes exhibition at the Geffrey Museum, London and the home of six families of Albanian heritage in Athens, Greece. In both cases, objects play a key role in mediating and reflecting identity and meaning-making.

Type: Article
Title: Discussions about Home and Identity at a Social History Museum
Location: UK
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.5334/ai.1810
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ai.1810
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (unless stated otherwise), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reporduction in any medium, providing the original work it properly cited. Copyright is retained by the author(s).
Keywords: socio-cultural theory, visitor identity, explanatory engagement, conversation analysis
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1333786
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