Museums and the making of "ourselves" : the role of objects in national identity /
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London ; New York : New York :
Leicester University Press ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
1994.
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Table of 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.
- 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.