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From Storeroom to Stage : Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore / Alexandra Urdea.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789201031
  • 9781789201048
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.009498 23
LOC classification:
  • GT1310 .U734 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Objects Defined -- INTRODUCTION Where a Collection Can Take You -- 1 Framing the Object -- Part II. Objects Kept -- 2 Unfolding the Past: The Context of the Archives -- 3 Out of the Wardrobes -- Part III. Objects in Place -- 4 Bringing It All Back Home -- 5 Houses of Modernity -- 6 Reconfigurations of the Public Space -- Part IV. Objects on Stage -- 7 The Boundaries of Folclor -- 8 Folklore Stars -- CONCLUSION What Does ‘Folklore’ Do? -- References -- Index
Summary: Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Objects Defined -- INTRODUCTION Where a Collection Can Take You -- 1 Framing the Object -- Part II. Objects Kept -- 2 Unfolding the Past: The Context of the Archives -- 3 Out of the Wardrobes -- Part III. Objects in Place -- 4 Bringing It All Back Home -- 5 Houses of Modernity -- 6 Reconfigurations of the Public Space -- Part IV. Objects on Stage -- 7 The Boundaries of Folclor -- 8 Folklore Stars -- CONCLUSION What Does ‘Folklore’ Do? -- References -- Index

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Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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