| Description |
xi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Flora E.S. Kaplan -- 1. Paradise Regained: the Role of Pacific Museums in Forging National Identity / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 2. Nigerian Museums: Envisaging Culture as National Identity / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- 3. Contested Identities: Museums and the Nation in Australia / Margaret Anderson and Andrew Reeves -- 4. Archaeology and the Establishment of Museums in Saudi Arabia / Abdullah H. Masry -- 5. History and Patriotism in the National Museum of Mexico / Luis Gerardo Morales-Moreno -- 6. The "Caribbeanization" of the West Indies: The Museum's Role in the Development of National Identity / Alissandra Cummins -- 7. Nostalgia for a Gilded Past? Museums in Minas Gerais, Brazil / J.P. Dickenson -- 8. The First Greek Museums and National Identity / Maria Avgouli -- 9. Old Wine in New Bottles, and the Reverse / Douglas Newton -- 10. Portuguese Art Treasures, Medieval Women and the Formation of Museum Collections / Madalena Braz Teixeira |
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11. Archaeological Museums in Israel: Reflections on Problems of National Identity / Magen Broshi -- 12. Repatriation of Cultural Heritage: The African Experience / Ekpo Eyo -- 13. The Case for Wampum: Repatriation from the Museum of the American Indian to the Six Nations Confederacy, Brantford, Ontario, Canada / George H.J. Abrams -- 14. 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 |
| Summary |
This volume chronicles the ways in which museum collections have played important roles in creating national identity and in promoting national agendas |
| Analysis |
Museums |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Ethnopsychology.
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Museums -- Influence.
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Museums -- Political aspects.
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Nation-state.
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National characteristics.
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| Author |
Kaplan, Flora S.
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| LC no. |
94000672 |
| ISBN |
0718500393 (paperback) |
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071851775X |
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