Recollections of France : : Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France / / ed. by Jeanine Picard, Marion Demossier, Sarah Blowen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Blowen, Sarah,; Bérard, Laurence,; Chappé, François,; Demossier, Marion,; Jenkins, Brian,; Joly, Marie-Hélène,; Marchenay, Philippe,; Milner, Susan,; Ménard, François,; Picard, Jeanine,; Portet, François,; Péron, Françoise,; Reynolds, Siân,; Warne, Chris,; Winter, Jay,
• HerausgeberIn: Blowen, Sarah,; Demossier, Marion,; Picard, Jeanine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary France ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of the Revolution in 1989 and can be interpreted as part of a re-examinaton of what it means to be French in the context of ongoing Europeanization. This study brings together scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds and engages them in debate with professionals from France, who are working in the fields of museology, heritage and cultural production. Addressing subjects such as war and memory, gastronomy and regional identity, maritime culture and urban societies, they throw fresh light on the process by which France has been conceptualized and packaged as a cultural object.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial Note -- Introduction -- Part I. Making Sense of the Present -- 1. Reconstructing the past: in search of new ‘national identities’ -- 2. Recalling the past and recreating it: ‘museums actual and possible’ -- Part II. Memories Of War -- 3. War museums in France -- 4. Public history and the 'Historial' project 1986-1998 -- 5. Lest we forget: memories, history and the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Isère -- Part III. Maritime Heritage -- 6. Construction of a Breton maritime heritage: processes and signiÞcation -- 7. Heritage and history: rocking the boat -- 8. Hidden reefs: a case study of the Port-Rhu floating museum fiasco in Douarnenez -- Part IV. Culinary Heritage -- 9. Culinary heritage and produits de terroir in France: food for thought -- 10. A market culture: produits de terroir or the selling of heritage -- 11. Produits de terroir, between local identity and heritage -- Part V. Urban Cultures And New Expressions -- 12. Fast forward to the future? Cultural policies and the deÞnition of urban identities in the era of de-industrialisation -- 13. Public policy and urban cultures in France -- 14. The mean(ing of the) streets: reading urban cultures in contemporary France -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index