Museums and the making of "ourselves"
Subtitle: the role of objects in national identity
By: edited by Flora E.S. Kaplan.
Contributors: Kaplan, Flora S.
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: Leicester University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Museums -- Influence; National characteristics; National state; Museums -- Political aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Paradise regained : the role of Pacific museums in forging national identity / Adrienne L. Kaeppler; title: Nigerian museums : envisaging culture as national identity / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan; title: Contested identities : museums and the nation in Australia / Margaret Anderson and Andrew Reeves; title: Archaeology and the establishment of museums in Saudi Arabia / Abdullah H. Masry; title: History and patriotism in the National Museum of Mexico / Luis Gerardo Morales-Moreno; title: The "Caribbeanization" of the West Indies : the museum's role in the development of national identity / Alissandra Cummins; title: Nostalgia for a gilded past? Museums in Minas Gerais, Brazil / J.P. Dickenson; title: The first Greek museums and national identity / Maria Avgouli; title: Old wine in new bottles, and the reverse / Douglas Newton; title: Portuguese art treasures, medieval women and the formation of museum collections / Madalena Braz Teixeira; title: Archaeological museums in Israel : reflections on problems of national identity / Magen Broshi; title: Repatriation of cultural heritage : the African experience / Ekpo Eyo; title: The case for wampum : repatriation from the Museum of the American Indian to the Six Nations Confederacy, Brantford, Ontario, Canada / George H.J. Abrams; title: 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.