Performing Nordic heritage

Performing Nordic heritage everyday practices and institutional culture / [electronic resource] : edited by Peter Aronsson and Lizette Gradén. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burllington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2013. - xi, 346 p. - Nordic experience .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Performing Nordic Heritage : Institutional Preservation and Popular Practices / Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén -- Walking Nordic : Performing Space, Place and Identity / Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch -- "Something in the Air" : Performing the North within Norden / Katla Kjartansdóttir and Kristinn Schram -- A Windmill and a Vikinghjem : The Importance of Visual Icons as Heritage Tropes among Danish-Americans / Hanne Pico Larsen -- Negotiating Local, National and Nordic Identities through Commemorations / Ingemar Lindaräng & Torbjörn Eng -- Banal Nordism : Recomposing an Old Song of Peace / Stuart Burch -- "Nordic" as Border Country Rhetoric : Danish versus German in South Jutland Museums and Memorial Culture / Olav Christensen -- Performing Nordic Spaces in Scandinavian-American Museums : Gift-exchange, Volunteerism, and Curatorial Practice / Lizette Gradén -- The Geopolitics of Distinction : Negotiating Regional Spaces in the Baltic Museums / Eglė Rindzevičiūtė -- Sweden versus Norden in Nordiska museet / Magdalena Hillström -- Performing the Nordic in Museums : Changing Ideas of Norden and their Political Implications / Peter Aronsson -- Conclusion: Performing Nordic Spaces in Everyday Life and Museums / Peter Aronsson & Lizette Gradén.


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National characteristics, Scandinavian.
Ethnicity--Social aspects--Scandinavia.
Ethnicity--Social aspects--North America.
Ethnicity--Social aspects--Baltic States.
Scandinavian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Scandinavians--Ethnic identity.--Baltic States
Historic preservation--Social aspects.
Cultural property--Protection--Social aspects.
Museums--Social aspects.
Popular culture--Social aspects.


Electronic books.

DL30 / .P47 2013eb

305.83/95