Contested Representations

Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa'

Shelly R. Butler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-99173-6 (ISBN)

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The author examines why the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada's Into the Heart of Africa exhibit failed so many people, discussing institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony.
By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

Shelley Ruth Butler

1. INTO THE HEART OF AFRICA AND THE STATUS QUO: The Status Quo, Toward a Reflexive Museology, Re-presenting Imperialism: A Personal Walk Through the Exhibit After the Fact 2. Museums, Contradictions of Resistance, Racism and Multiculturalism 3. VARIOUS POSITIONS: RESPONSES TO THE COALITION FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA: Authority at/of the ROM, Classroom Confrontations, Media 4. Conclusions, The Black Community: Protest and Process, Victims and Victimization, Outcomes 5. ENTERING THE DEBATES: Coming Into the Field, Museum Ethnography 6. THE COALITION FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT AFRICA: STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES: Performing Resistance, The Politics of Contestation, Democratizing 8. PRELUDE TO THE CONTROVERSY: The Ambiguity of Irony, Power Relations and Public Culture, The Politics of Consultation

Erscheinungsdatum	03.03.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	80 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-99173-2 / 1138991732
ISBN-13	978-1-138-99173-6 / 9781138991736
Zustand	Neuware