Staging the Past: Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives

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Staging the Past

Themed Environments in Transcultural Perspectives

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

About this book

Popular representations of history are taking on new forms and reaching wider audiences. The search for usable pasts is branching out into active appropriations of history such as historical theme parks, housing developments, and live-action role play. Drawing on themed environments across the continents, the articles in this volume focus on how these appropriations bypass, are different from, or even contradict traditional as well as scientific modes of disseminating historical knowledge. Bringing together theorists and practitioners, they provide the basis for an interdisciplinary as well as a transcultural theory of how pasts are staged in various social contexts.

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Contributor: Michiko Uike-Bormann

Michiko Uike-Bormann ist Mitglied der interdisziplinären DFG-Forschergruppe 875 »Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen der Gegenwart« an der Universität Freiburg i. Br.

--- Contributor: Carolyn Oesterle

Carolyn Oesterle ist Mitglied der interdisziplinären DFG-Forschergruppe 875 »Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen der Gegenwart« an der Universität Freiburg i. Br.

--- Contributor: Wolfgang Hochbruck

Wolfgang Hochbruck (Prof. Dr.) lehrt Nordamerikastudien und Cultural Studies an der Universität Freiburg. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Drama und Theater sowie Cultural Studies in der Sicherheitsforschung.

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CONTENTS
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Introduction: Staging the Past
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Wolfgang Hochbruck and Judith Schlehe

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Transcultural Settings: Theme Parks and Lifespace
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The Presence of Pastness: Themed Environments and Beyond
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Cornelius Holtorf

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“The Past, Foreign Countries and Fantasy ... They All Make for a Good Outing”: Staging the Past in Japan and Some Other Locations
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Joy Hendry

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Staging the Past in Cultural Theme Parks: Representations of Self and Other in Asia and Europe
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Judith Schlehe and Michiko Uike-Bormann

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Imagineering Tailor-Made Pasts for Nation-Building and Tourism: A Comparative Perspective
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Noel B. Salazar

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Holy Land Protestant Themed Environments and the Spiritual Experience
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Amos S. Ron

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From Themed Space to Lifespace
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Scott A. Lukas

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Transhistorical Action: Performance and Social Experience
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Themed Environments – Performative Spaces: Performing Visitors in North American Living History Museums
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Carolyn Oesterle

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Staging the Past in the Revolutionary City: Colonial Williamsburg
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Martine Teunissen

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“The New You”: Best Practice in Historical Live Interpretation
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Mark Wallis

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History’s Pure Serene: On Reenacting Cook’s First Voyage, September 2001
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Vanessa Agnew

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“Little Families”: The Social Fabric of Civil War Reenacting
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Gordon L. Jones

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Ventures into History
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Regina Loftus, Paul Röllke and Victoria Tafferner

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Playing Ethnology
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Anja Dreschke

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February 10, 2014

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9783839414811

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274

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https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839414811

eBook ISBN: 9783839414811

Keywords for this book

History; History; Transculturalism; Transculturalism; Theme Park; Theme Park; Living History; Living History; Performance; Performance; Memory Culture; Memory Culture; Popular Culture; Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

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Staging the Past

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Supplementary Materials

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Editorial

CONTENTS

Introduction: Staging the Past

The Presence of Pastness: Themed Environments and Beyond

“The Past, Foreign Countries and Fantasy ... They All Make for a Good Outing”: Staging the Past in Japan and Some Other Locations

Staging the Past in Cultural Theme Parks: Representations of Self and Other in Asia and Europe

Imagineering Tailor-Made Pasts for Nation-Building and Tourism: A Comparative Perspective

Holy Land Protestant Themed Environments and the Spiritual Experience

From Themed Space to Lifespace

Themed Environments – Performative Spaces: Performing Visitors in North American Living History Museums

Staging the Past in the Revolutionary City: Colonial Williamsburg

“The New You”: Best Practice in Historical Live Interpretation

History’s Pure Serene: On Reenacting Cook’s First Voyage, September 2001

“Little Families”: The Social Fabric of Civil War Reenacting

Ventures into History

Playing Ethnology

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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