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Deindustrialization and museumification: From exhibited memory to forgotten history
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Date de parution
2004
In
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
No
595
De la page
122
A la page
133
Résumé
This ethnographic study of the creation of a museum in Le Creusot (France) provides an analysis of the heritage industry that emerged in the wake of the demise of a family company around which the town was built. This museum was a reaction to the passing of an age when industrial and urban environments were intrinsically linked. Through this description of how the past is collected and recollected in a museum, this article attempts to determine if this duty of remembrance is not, to a certain extent, a staging of history fading into oblivion-our society's sole response to industrial regeneration?
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journal article
