Possessors and possessed : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Turkey--History.

Museums.

Museums--Collection management--Turkey--History.

Museums--Collection management.

History.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]

Summary:

A history of the creation of museums in Ottoman Turkey, which demonstrates that museum-building was both a product of and a response to European imperialism. Having learned to value their antiquities, the Ottomans proceeded to use them as visual manifestations of emerging nationalism.

Contents:

Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia

Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities

The rise of the imperial museum

The dialectic of law and infringement

Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras

Antiquities collections in the imperial museum

Islamic arts in imperial collections

Military collections in the late empire

Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

ISBN:

0520233352

OCLC:

50510766