List of Illustrations |
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Editors |
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General Editors |
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Contributors |
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Editors' Preface to Museum Transformations and The International Handbooks of Museum Studies |
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Introduction: Museums in Transformation: Dynamics of Democratization and Decolonization |
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Part I Difficult Histories |
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1 The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and Its Information Center: Concepts, Controversies, Reactions |
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2 Ghosts of Future Nations, or The Uses of the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India |
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3 The International Difficult Histories Boom, the Democratization of History, and the National Museum of Australia |
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4 Where Are the Children? and "We Were So Far Away ...": Exhibiting the Legacies of Residential Schools, Healing, and Reconciliation |
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5 Recirculating Images of the "Terrorist" in Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the National Museum of Struggle in Nicosia, Cyprus |
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113 | (20) |
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6 Reactivating the Colonial Collection: Exhibition-Making as Creative Process at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam |
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133 | (24) |
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7 "Congo As It Is?": Curatorial Reflections on Using Spatial Urban History in the Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era Exhibition |
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157 | (24) |
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8 Between the Archive and the Monument: Memory Museums in Postdictatorship Argentina and Chile |
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181 | (26) |
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9 The Gender of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa: The Women's Jail as Heritage Site |
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207 | (20) |
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Part II Social Agency and the Museum |
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227 | (186) |
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10 An Ethnography of Repatriation: Engagements with Erromango, Vanuatu |
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229 | (20) |
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11 Of Heritage and Hesitation: Reflections on the Melanesian Art Project at the British Museum |
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249 | (14) |
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12 The Blackfoot Shirts Project: "Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit" |
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263 | (26) |
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13 "Get to Know Your World": An Interview with Jim Enote, Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico |
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289 | (22) |
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14 The Paro Manene Project: Exhibiting and Researching Photographic Histories in Western Kenya |
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311 | (26) |
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15 Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Curatorship, Knowledge Networks, and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone |
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337 | (28) |
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16 On Not Looking: Economies of Visuality in Digital Museums |
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365 | (22) |
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17 Preserving the Physical Object in Changing Cultural Contexts |
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387 | (26) |
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Part III Museum Experiments |
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18 The Last Frontier: Migratory Culture, Video, and Exhibiting without Voyeurism |
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415 | (24) |
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19 Public Art/Private Lives: The Making of Hotel Yeoville |
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439 | (32) |
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20 Museums, Women, and the Web |
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471 | (18) |
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21 Mobius Museology: Curating and Critiquing the Multiversity Galleries at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia |
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489 | (22) |
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22 When You Were Mine: (Re)Telling History at the National Museum of the American Indian |
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511 | (16) |
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23 Against the Edifice Complex: Vivan Sundaram's History Project and the Colonial Museum in India |
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527 | (18) |
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24 Can National Museums be Postcolonial?: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Obligation of Redress to First Nations |
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545 | (30) |
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Index |
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