Detalls del llibre
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."
- Autor/a Shelley Ruth Butler
- ISBN13 9789057005220
- ISBN10 9057005220
- Pàgines 140
- Any Edició 1999
- Fecha de publicación 11/05/1999
Ressenyes i valoracions
Contested Representations Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa
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- Shelley Ruth Butler
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- Gordon and Breach (1999)
- 9789057005220



