Reinventing Africa : museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England

• 1. Material Culture at the Crossroads of Knowledge: The Case of the Benin 'Bronzes' -- 2. Voices in the Wilderness: Critics of Empire -- 3. Aesthetic Pleasure and Institutional Power -- 4. The Spectacle of Empire 1: Expansionism and Philanthropy at the Stanley and African Exhibition -- 5. The Spectacle of Empire 2: Exhibitionary Narratives -- 6. Temples of Empire: The Museum and its Publics -- 7. Containing the Continent: Ethnographies on Display -- 8. 'For God and For England': Missionary Contributions to an Image of Africa -- 9. National Unity and Racial and Ethnic Identities: The Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 -- Epilogue: Inventing the 'Post-Colonial'.

Ämnesord

Historical sociology  (bnb)

Anthropological museums and collections  -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century (bnb)

Kulturminnesvård  -- Engelsmän i Africa -- Kulturantropologi

Africa  -- Antiquities

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Bgk Kulturminnesvård

Kex-p Historia: engelsmän i utlandet: Afrika

Mp Etnografi, socialantropologi och etnologi: Afrika

Klassifikation

305.896007441 (DDC)

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