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Contested histories in public space : memory, race, and nation / edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Radical perspectives.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public history.
- Public spaces.
- Nationalism.
- Race.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historians, anthropologists, and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world.
- Contents:
- Two peoples, one mission: biculturalism and visitor "experience" at Te Papa/"Our Place," New Zealand's new national museum / Charlotte J. Macdonald
- Contesting time, place, and nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips
- "Unfinished business": public history in a postcolonial nation / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton
- Colonial legacies and winners' tales : exhibiting Asia in Britain : commerce, consumption, and globalization / Durba Ghosh
- The Alamo : myth, public history, and the politics of inclusion / Richard R. Flores
- Ellis Island redux : the imperial turn and the race of ethnicity / Daniel J. Walkowitz
- A cultural conundrum? old monuments and new regimes : the Voortrekker Monument as symbol of Afrikaner power in a postapartheid South Africa / Albert Grundlingh
- Narratives of power, the power of narratives : the failing foundational narrative of the Ecuadorian nation / O. Hugo Benavides
- Affective distinctions : race and place in Oaxaca / Deborah Poole
- Marking remembrance : nation and ecology in two riverbank monuments in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher
- Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba" : outlaw uprisings, racial tourism and the progressive state in Brazil / Paul Amar
- Afrocuban religion, museums, and the Cuban nation / Lisa Maya Knauer
- Haunting Delgres / Laurent Dubois.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065100
- 9781283065108
- 128306510X
- 9780822391425
- 0822391422
- OCLC:
- 320538528
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