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Deindustrialization and Museumification: From Exhibited Memory to Forgotten History

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  • Octave Debary

    (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales de Paris, LAHIC laboratory (Laboratory of Anthropology and History of Cultural Institutions, CNRS).)

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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 strategy of forgetfulness. Is cultural regeneration—the staging of history fading into oblivion—our society’s sole response to industrial regeneration?

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  • Octave Debary, 2004. "Deindustrialization and Museumification: From Exhibited Memory to Forgotten History," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 595(1), pages 122-133, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:595:y:2004:i:1:p:122-133
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716204266630
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