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Synopsis
The post-colonial world has seen a major re-evaluation, theoretical as well as political of the institutions and ideologies of colonialism. These innovative theoretical analyses have opened up new approaches to how we should display colonial objects in a post-colonial world.
Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object includes intensive case studies of objects from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, China and Africa, all of which were collected by or exhibited in the institutions of the British Empire. Other chapters address issues of racial identity across cultural barriers, and the hybrid styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet.
Booknews
Discusses the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. Fourteen contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds include case studies of objects collected by or exhibited in the institutions of the British Empire as well as discussions of issues of racial identity across cultural barriers and the hybrid styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet. They demonstrate that the intensive analysis of museum objects and their contexts can provide timely and substantive insights into issues of global importance. Contains many b&w illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.