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Book SynopsisWhile the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe, the contributors investigate which roles the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. They answer the question to which degree the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and its amount of power to shape contemporary narratives. The volume thus examines the contradictions at play when the necessary claim for transculturality meets the institutions of the nation-state. With contributions by Stanislas Spero Adotevi, Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Natasha Ginwala, Monica Hanna, Rajkamal Kahlon, Suzana Milevska, Mirjam Shatanawi, Kavita Singh, Ruth Stamm, Andrea Witcomb.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Museum Narratives between Transculturality and the Nation-State; 'Come On Home'; Museums in Contemporary Educational and Cultural Systems [1971]; Remembering and Forgetting in the National Museums of South Asia; Repatriating Cultural Identity; Die Völker der Erde (People of the Earth); On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (16711737) at the Rijksmuseum; Shameful Objects, Apologizing Subjects; Towards a Cosmopolitical Exhibition Practice; Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala; Contributors.
