Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture, and the MuseumT. J. Barringer, Tom Flynn Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. The book 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, and key chapters address issues of radical identity across cultural barriers, and the hybird styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet. Colonialism and the Object is essential reading for all those interested in post-colonial theory, museum studies, material culture and design history. |
Contents
The South Kensington Museum and the colonial project | 11 |
Chinese material culture and British perceptions of China in | 28 |
The imperial collections | 41 |
A mustice silversmith | 82 |
Central Asians in Soviet decorative art | 95 |
The new transcultural collections | 111 |
a Maori meeting house | 129 |
Maori vision and the imperialist gaze | 144 |
Missionary collections | 153 |
Herbert Langs Congo | 167 |
The revival of chryselephantine sculpture | 188 |
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Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture, and the Museum T. J. Barringer,Tom Flynn Limited preview - 1998 |
Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture, and the Museum T. J. Barringer,Tom Flynn No preview available - 1998 |
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References to this book
Post-colonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin No preview available - 2007 |