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The postcolonial museum : the arts of memory and the pressures of history / edited by Iain Chambers, Alessandra De Angelis, Celeste Ianniciello, Mariangela Orabona and Michaela Quadraro.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Museums.
- Postcolonialism--Social aspects.
- Postcolonialism.
- Collective memory--Social aspects.
- Collective memory.
- Museums and community.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction : disruptive encounters. museums, arts, and postcoloniality / Alessandra De Angelis, Celeste Ianniciello, Mariangela Orabona, Michaela Quadraro
- A museum without objects / Françoise VergeÌs
- Decolonizing national museums of ethnography in Europe : exposing and reshaping colonial heritage (2000-2012) / Felicity Bodenstein and Camilla Pagani
- Colonial spaces, postcolonial narratives : the exhibitionary landscape of Fort Cochin in India / Neelima Jeychandran
- Ethnographic museums : from colonial exposition to intercultural dialogue / Fabienne Boursiquot
- "There is not yet a world" / Ebadur Rahman
- The artist as interlocutor and the labour of memory / Joanna Figiel, Mihaela Brebenel, Christopher Collier
- Performance in the museum space (for a wandering society) / Margherita Parati
- "Museo diffuso" : performing memory in public spaces / Viviana Gravano
- Mining the museum in an age of migration / Anne Ring Petersen
- Blurring history : the Central European museum and the schizophrenia of capital / Ivan Jurica
- The limits to institutional change : organisational roles and roots / Peggy Levitt
- The incurable image : curation and repetition on a tri-continental scene / Tarek Elhaik
- The postcolonial "exhibitionary complex" : the role of the international expo in migrating and multicultural societies / Stefania Zuliani
- Orientalism and the politics of contemporary art exhibitions / Alessandra Marino
- What museum for Africa? / Itala Vivan
- Egyptian chemistry : from post-colonial to post-humanist matters / Ursula Biemann
- "The lived moment" : new aesthetics for migrant recollection / Peter Leese
- Coding/decoding the archive / David Gauthier and Erin La Cour
- Afterword : after the museum / Iain Chambers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781315554105
- 1315554100
- Publisher Number:
- 99984187919
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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