Museums and the making of "ourselves": the role of objects in national identity/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London; New York:
Leicester University Press,
1996, c1994
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| Edition: | pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.