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Museums and the making of "ourselves" : the role of objects in national identity / edited by Flora E.S. Kaplan.

Kaplan, Flora S. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0718500393 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780718500399 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: Pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: London ; Leicester University Press, 1996, c1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Paradise regained : the role of Pacific museums in forging national identity / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Nigerian museums : envisaging culture as national identity / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Contested identities : museums and the nation in Australia / Margaret Anderson and Andrew Reeves -- Archaeology and the establishment of museums in Saudi Arabia / Abdullah H. Masry -- History and patriotism in the National Museum of Mexico / Luis Gerardo Morales-Moreno -- The "Caribbeanization" of the West Indies : the museum's role in the development of national identity / Alissandra Cummins -- Nostalgia for a gilded past? Museums in Minas Gerais, Brazil / J.P. Dickenson -- The first Greek museums and national identity / Maria Avgouli -- Old wine in new bottles, and the reverse / Douglas Newton -- Portuguese art treasures, medieval women and the formation of museum collections / Madalena Braz Teixeira.
Archaeological museums in Israel : reflections on problems of national identity / Magen Broshi -- Repatriation of cultural heritage : the African experience / Ekpo Eyo -- The case for wampum : repatriation from the Museum of the American Indian to the Six Nations Confederacy, Brantford, Ontario, Canada / George H.J. Abrams -- Anthropology and the kistapi waksin syndrome : distortions in interpreting subsistence patterns among Mississippian State, Coast Salish, and Haida complex societies and other simpler societies in North America / Howard D. Winters.
Subject:
Museums > Influence.
National characteristics.
Nation-state.
Museums > Political aspects.

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