Walkowitz / Knauer Contested Histories in Public Space

Memory, Race, and Nation
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9142-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

Historians, anthropologists, and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Knauer, Lisa Maya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series vii

Introduction / Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz 1

First Things First

Two Peoples, One Museum: Biculturalism and Visitor "Experience" at Te Papa—Our Place, New Zealand's National Museum / Charlotte J. MacDonald 29

Contesting Time, Place, and Nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips 49

"Unfinished Business": Public History in a Postcolonial Nation / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton 71

Colonial Legacies and Winners' Tales

Exhibiting Asia in Britain: Commerce, Consumption, and Globalization / Durba Ghosh 99

The Alamo: Myth, Public History, and the Politics of Inclusion / Richard R. Flores 122

Ellis Island Redux: The Imperial Turn and the Race of Ethnicity / Daniel J. Walkowitz 136

State Stories

A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a Postapartheid South Africa / Albert Grundlingh 155

Narratives of Power, the Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the Ecuadorian Nation / O. Hugo Benavides 178

Affective Distinctions: Race and Place in Oaxaca / Deborah Poole 197

Under-Stated Stories

Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Monuments in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher 227

Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba": Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Tourism and the Progressive State in Brazil / Paul Amar 239

Afrocuban Religion, Museums, and the Cuban Nation / Lisa Maya Knauer 280

Haunting Delgrès / Laurent Dubois 311

Bibliography 329

Contributors 353

Index 357

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel J. Walkowitz is Professor of History, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Director of Experiential Education at New York University. Lisa Maya Knauer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. They are editors of Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space, also published by Duke University Press.Lisa Maya Knauer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African/African-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.