[audiobook] The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (Oxford Handbooks) by From Oxford University Press in Arts-Photography

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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.