Interpreting Agriculture at Museums and Historic Sites (eBook)

Debra A. Reid (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
284 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3012-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Why should our museum accept and exhibit that tractor? Why do we need to keep those old seed samples or those plows? No one cares about farming anymore. Interpreting Agriculture in Museums and Historic Sites orients readers to major themes in agriculture and techniques in education and interpretation that can help you develop humanities-based public programming that enhance agricultural literacy. Case studies illustrate the ways that local research can help you link your history organization to compelling national (even international) stories on topics relevant to public needs and interests.

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Interpreting Agriculture in Museums and Historic Sites orients readers to major themes in agriculture and techniques in education and interpretation that can help you develop humanities-based public programming that enhance agricultural literacy. Case studies illustrate the ways that local research can help you link your history organization to compelling local, national (even international) stories focused on the multidisciplinary topic. That ordinary plow, pitch fork, and butter paddle can provide the tangible evidence of the story worth telling, even if the farm land has disappeared into subdivisions and agriculture seems as remote as the nineteenth century. Other topics include discussion of alliances between rural tourism and community-supported agriculture, farmland conservation and stewardship, heritage breed and seed preservation efforts, and antique tractor clubs. Any of these can become indispensable partners to history organizations searching for a new interpretive theme to explore and new partners to engage.

Autor

Debra A. Reid is curator of agriculture and the environment at The Henry Ford, and professor emeritus in the Department of History and Historical Administration Graduate Program at Eastern Illinois University. Since 2006 she has also served as adjunct professor at the University of Illinois in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

Inhalt

Foreword – Tom KelleherPart 1: Developing Interpretation with an Agricultural PerspectiveChapter 1 Interpreting Agriculture: Introduction to Terms and ThemesChapter 2 Once a Field, now Suburbia: Interpreting Agriculture in Any ContextChapter 3 Agriculture: Developing a Humanist Point of ViewChapter 4 Agriculture and Historical ThinkingPart 2: Agriculture in Time and Place: Research as the Foundation for InterpretationChapter 5 Documenting Agriculture in Two Dimensions: Background ResearchChapter 6 Documenting Agriculture in Three Dimensions: ArtifactsResearch Summaries:Chapter 7 You Can’t Eat Gold: Agriculture in Early Colorado City, 1858-1867, Carol Kennis LopezChapter 8 Changes in Corn-Belt Crop Culture: Iowa, 1945-1972, J.L. AndersonChapter 9 A Curator’s Legacy, William S. PretzerPart 3: Thematic Studies to Inform Localized Agriculture InterpretationChapter 10 Roads and Bridges in Rural Agricultural Interpretation, Cameron L. Saffell and Debra A. ReidChapter 11 Horses, Harness, and Transport: Informing Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Barbara Corson, VMD Chapter 12 Livestock in Agricultural Interpretation, Jonathan D. Kuester and Debra ReidChapter 13 Sex, Drugs, and GMOs: Crops and Agricultural InterpretationPart 4: Developing InterpretationChapter 14 Interpreting Agriculture: A Multi-Step Sequential ProcessChapter 15 Case Study – Interpreting Rural Life in El Paso, Texas, Cameron L. SaffellChapter 16 Case Study: An Exhibit – Reaper: Nettie Fowler McCormick and the Machine that Built Tusculum College, Peter M. NollConclusionAppendix: Links to Useful Information

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Interpreting History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-3012-6 / 1442230126
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3012-5 / 9781442230125