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Contested Representations : Revisiting 'into the Heart of Africa' by Shelly R. Butler (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-109057005220
ISBN-139789057005220
eBay Product ID (ePID)1142673
Product Key Features
Number of Pages148 Pages
Publication NameContested Representations : Revisiting 'into the Heart of Africa'
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAfrica / General, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year1999
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaTravel, Social Science, History
AuthorShelly R. Butler
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length6.1 in
Item Width9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal069.509713541
Table Of Content1. INTO THE HEART OF AFRICA AND THE STATUS QUO: The Status Quo, Toward a Reflexive Museology, Re-presenting Imperialism: A Personal Walk Through the Exhibit After the Fact 2. Museums, Contradictions of Resistance, Racism and Multiculturalism 3. VARIOUS POSITIONS: RESPONSES TO THE COALITION FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA: Authority at/of the ROM, Classroom Confrontations, Media 4. Conclusions, The Black Community: "Protest and Process," Victims and Victimization, Outcomes 5. ENTERING THE DEBATES: Coming Into the Field, Museum Ethnography 6. THE COALITION FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES: Performing Resistance, The Politics of Contestation, Democratizing 8. PRELUDE TO THE CONTROVERSY: The Ambiguity of Irony, Power Relations and Public Culture, The Politics of Consultation
SynopsisThe author examines why the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada's Into the Heart of Africaexhibit failed so many people, discussing institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of, The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa.", The controversy surrounding the significant " Into the Heart of Africa " exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansive Into the Heart of Africa."
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