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Accepted Paper:
Storytelling and arguing with objects in space - ethnological exhibitions as narratives
Helmut Groschwitz
(Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
Paper short abstract:
The paper discusses the possibilities of adopting the analysis of narrative structures between narrative surface and deep structure to ethnological and historical exhibitions.
Paper long abstract:
Based on the analysis of texts between the narrative surface and the deep structure, this paper wants to extend this approach to exhibitions as hybrid forms of narrative and non-narrative argumentations. Not only the verbal contents of an exhibition transport content, but also the architecture, the spatial and sensual aspects, the way of presenting and contextualising the objects, the modus of participation and integration of communities, altogether can be read as types of narratives. Thus it is intended to consider the scale between verbal, visual, spatial and sensual narrativity.