TY - JOUR
AU - Kurt Dewhurst
AB - Folklore and museums have had a long and intertwined history. Among those responsible for the founding of the American Folklore Society (AFS) in 1888 were museum-based anthropologists, curators, and collection managers. Since that time, folklorists have worked in and with museums in a variety of ways — work that has reflected intellectual and political shifts in folklore studies as well as changes in museum practice. As cultural heritage work in the twenty-first century seeks simultaneously to document, interpret, present, preserve, and protect tangible and intangible heritage while at the same time address the needs of civil society, the logical interfaces between folklore and museum work have increased. The first development was the emergence and growth of open-air museums and living history programming. In 1872, Swedish teacher, scholar, and folklorist Artur Hazelius established a museum in Stockholm for Swedish ethnography, now called Nordiska museet, to house the peasant life materials he bought or managed to get donated from all over Sweden and the other Nordic countries.
BT - The Journal of American Folklore
M1 - 505
N2 - Folklore and museums have had a long and intertwined history. Among those responsible for the founding of the American Folklore Society (AFS) in 1888 were museum-based anthropologists, curators, and collection managers. Since that time, folklorists have worked in and with museums in a variety of ways — work that has reflected intellectual and political shifts in folklore studies as well as changes in museum practice. As cultural heritage work in the twenty-first century seeks simultaneously to document, interpret, present, preserve, and protect tangible and intangible heritage while at the same time address the needs of civil society, the logical interfaces between folklore and museum work have increased. The first development was the emergence and growth of open-air museums and living history programming. In 1872, Swedish teacher, scholar, and folklorist Artur Hazelius established a museum in Stockholm for Swedish ethnography, now called Nordiska museet, to house the peasant life materials he bought or managed to get donated from all over Sweden and the other Nordic countries.
PY - 2014
SP - 247
EP - 263
T2 - The Journal of American Folklore
TI - Folklife and museum practice: : an intertwined history and emerging convergences (American folklore society presidential address, October 2011)
UR - https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extart?codigo=4795382
VL - 127
SN - 1535-1882
ER -