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Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel

Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel

Jaffe-Schagen, Judy

Hardcover

Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movemen, Book 5

General ReferenceGeneral ArtGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1785331345
ISBN13: 9781785331343
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Apr 1 2016
Pages: 233
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections between both spheres, which play similar roles by housing objects and generating social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight representative Israeli communities--Chabad, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, Russian, Religious-Zionist, Christian Arab, and Muslim Arab--it gives a powerful account of museums' role in state formation, proposing a new approach to collecting and categorizing particularly well-suited to societies in conflict.

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