Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edward...
Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edward...
Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England / Annie E. Coombes.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
Date
1994.
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N960.07441/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
vii, 280 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents
1. Material Culture at the Crossroads of Knowledge: The Case of the Benin 'Bronzes' -- 2. Voices in the Wilderness: Critics of Empire -- 3. Aesthetic Pleasure and Institutional Power -- 4. The Spectacle of Empire 1: Expansionism and Philanthropy at the Stanley and African Exhibition -- 5. The Specta...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
1994.
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Summary
Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things 'African', this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of 'Africa' and of what it was to be African - representations that varied according t...
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Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England / Annie E. Coombes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index.
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N960.07441/1
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74VK7OkW6G5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7OkW6G5O
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ISBN
0300059728
9780300059724
DDC
960.07441
96007441
MMS ID
991022783379702626
