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• catalog abstract "This volume presents 14 original case studies from as many countries, written by archaeologists, art historians, historians, and museologists. It sees museums, their collections, and exhibitions as both products and agents of social change, and suggests museums themselves be analysed as important social institutions--where contested access to means of publicly defining self, cultural and national identity takes place--among elites, would-be elites, ethnic, and other constituent groups in society. Also chronicled are the important roles objects play in forging nation-states, in promoting national agendas, and in embodying the values and very "idea" of a group or a people.".
• catalog contributor b4459116.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Paradise regained : the role of Pacific museums in forging national identity / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Nigerian museums : envisaging culture as national identity / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Contested identities : museums and the nation in Australia / Margaret Anderson and Andrew Reeves -- Archaeology and the establishment of museums in Saudi Arabia / Abdullah H. Masry -- History and patriotism in the National Museum of Mexico / Luis Gerardo Morales-Moreno -- The "Caribbeanization" of the West Indies : the museum's role in the development of national identity / Alissandra Cummins -- Nostalgia for a gilded past? Museums in Minas Gerais, Brazil / J.P. Dickenson -- The first Greek museums and national identity / Maria Avgouli -- Old wine in new bottles, and the reverse / Douglas Newton -- Portuguese art treasures, medieval women and the formation of museum collections / Madalena Braz Teixeira.".
• catalog description "This volume presents 14 original case studies from as many countries, written by archaeologists, art historians, historians, and museologists. It sees museums, their collections, and exhibitions as both products and agents of social change, and suggests museums themselves be analysed as important social institutions--where contested access to means of publicly defining self, cultural and national identity takes place--among elites, would-be elites, ethnic, and other constituent groups in society. Also chronicled are the important roles objects play in forging nation-states, in promoting national agendas, and in embodying the values and very "idea" of a group or a people.".
• catalog extent "xi, 430 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Museums and the making of "ourselves".".
• catalog identifier "0718500393 (pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0718514726".
• catalog identifier "071851775X".
• catalog isFormatOf "Museums and the making of "ourselves".".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London ; New York : Leicester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press,".
• catalog relation "Museums and the making of "ourselves".".
• catalog subject "069.5 20".
• catalog subject "AM7 .M882 1994".
• catalog subject "Museums Influence.".
• catalog subject "Museums Political aspects.".
• catalog subject "Nation-state.".
• catalog subject "National characteristics.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Paradise regained : the role of Pacific museums in forging national identity / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Nigerian museums : envisaging culture as national identity / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Contested identities : museums and the nation in Australia / Margaret Anderson and Andrew Reeves -- Archaeology and the establishment of museums in Saudi Arabia / Abdullah H. Masry -- History and patriotism in the National Museum of Mexico / Luis Gerardo Morales-Moreno -- The "Caribbeanization" of the West Indies : the museum's role in the development of national identity / Alissandra Cummins -- Nostalgia for a gilded past? Museums in Minas Gerais, Brazil / J.P. Dickenson -- The first Greek museums and national identity / Maria Avgouli -- Old wine in new bottles, and the reverse / Douglas Newton -- Portuguese art treasures, medieval women and the formation of museum collections / Madalena Braz Teixeira.".
• catalog title "Museums and the making of "ourselves" : the role of objects in national identity / edited by Flora E.S. Kaplan.".
• catalog type "text".