Contested Representations: Revisiting "Into the Heart of Africa" - Brossura

Butler, Shelly Ruth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1551117770 ISBN 13: 9781551117775

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, 2007

Riassunto

Contested Representations examines the controversy surrounding the Into the Heart of Africa exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto in 1989-90. The exhibition was meant to travel to the US and Canada, but four major museums cancelled their contracts due to its controversial nature.

With this richly textured account of the ways in which the exhibit became the site of an expansive&;and explosive&;discussion of representation, racism, and power, Butler asks why the exhibit failed for so many people. In the process she discusses issues of curatorial authority, institutional politics, legacies of colonialism, traditions of representing Africa, the politics of irony, and reflexive museology. The combination of race, postmodernism, colonialism, community activism, and heated debate still leaves the Into the Heart of Africa exhibit in a class by itself. It continues to be cited, debated, and used as reference points by Africanists, art historians, museologists, cultural anthropologists, and historians.

Originally published in 1994, this case study is now available in an affordable paperback edition with a new Foreword by Anthony Shelton (UBC Museum of Anthropology) and an Afterword by the author outlining recent ROM practices in relation to the Black community and in representing Africa.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Shelley Ruth Butler is an anthropologist and research fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. She has written numerous articles on the politics of museum exhibitions and on tourism in South Africa.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1551117770
• ISBN 13: 9781551117775
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile