Colonialism and the object empire, material culture and the museum

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Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 241
Series: Museum meanings
Edition: Transferred to digit. print
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part 1 Institution, object, imperialism
2 The South Kensington Museum and the colonial project
3 Chinese material culture and British perceptions of China in the mid-nineteenth century
4 China in Britain: The imperial collections
5 Colonial architecture, international exhibitions and official patronage of the Indian artisan: The case of a gateway from Gwalior in the Victoria and Albert Museum
6 Stylistic hybridity and colonial art and design education: A wooden carved screen by Ram Singh
7 Race, authenticity and colonialism: A 'mustice' silversmith in Philadelphia and St Croix, 1783-1850
8 Domesticating Uzbeks: Central Asians in Soviet decorative art of the twenties and thirties
9 Keys to the magic kingdom: The new transcultural collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums
Part 2 Ethnography and colonial objects
10 Perspectives on Hinemihi: a Maori meeting house
11 Maori vision and the imperialist gaze
12 Gathering souls and objects: Missionary collections
13 Photography at the heart of darkness: Herbert Lang's Congo photographs (1909-15)
14 Taming the tusk: The revival of chryselephantine sculpture in Belgium during the 1890s
Bibliography
Index

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