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R epresenting the Past in Vietnamese Museums
Author(s) -
TAI HUETAM HO
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.1998.tb00833.x
Subject(s) - vietnamese , narrative , representation (politics) , history , sociology , political science , aesthetics , linguistics , literature , art , law , politics , philosophy
Focusing on problems of representation encountered by museums in Vietnam, the article questions the idea of a single historical narrative that can do justice to local experience while also illustrating a unified national past.