Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum
โ Scribed by Gaynor Kavanagh
- Publisher
- Leicester University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 209
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Dream spaces, memories and museums
2 What is memory?
3 Remembering and forgetting
4 Memory and life stages
5 Memory in late life
6 Remembering and the society of others
7 The art of listening
8 Oral history and museums
9 Recording memories
10 Working with testimony
11 Dynamics of interviewing
12 Collections of objects, or memories?
13 Collecting memories and objects
14 Reminiscence and the older adult
15 Working with reminiscence
16 Working with the memory bearers
17 Bearing witness
18 Memories, dream spaces and the visit
19 Dreaming the rational
20 Memory spaces, dreams and museums
Bibliography
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