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| #438164 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 1997-07-17 | 1997-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.68 x6.00l,.99 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| An impressive anthropology of Colonial Williamsburg|By Arthur Digbee|This book provides an anthropology of a museum - - an important museum, Colonial Williamsburg (CW), which receives about a million visitors a year. The authors are interested in how CW produces its interpretive content. They studied the site at a time when the new social historians were trying to introduce|From Library Journal|In the past decade the staff of Colonial Williamsburg has attempted to incorporate the methodology of the new social history into its interpretive program. This change meant involving the "real" people of Colonial Williamsburg?blacks, women,
The New History in an Old Museum is an exploration of "historical truth" as presented at Colonial Williamsburg. More than a detailed history of a museum and tourist attraction, it examines the packaging of American history, and consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs. Through extensive fieldwork—including numerous site visits, interviews with employees and visitors, and archival research—Richard Handler and Eric Gable illustrate how...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg | Richard Handler, Eric Gable. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.