ABSTRACT
Utilizing actor–network theory, Ronald Schumann presents methods scholars can use to understand how historic interpreters, visitors, and restored landscapes together animate, or bring to life, plantation museums in the U.S. South. Arguing that the visual is central to this process, he compares and assesses three different photographic methods (photo documentation, photo elicitation, and go-along photo tours). When interpreting these data, Schumann demonstrates the utility of viewing plantation landscapes as a cooperative, but tension-filled, animation process when exploring how memory is reproduced at such sites.
