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British colonial expansion led to the display of many valuable African artifacts in Britain. This analysis covers the ways in which African peoples and their material culture were represented, the justifications for imperial expansion; and the effects this had on racial stereotyping.

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Material culture at the crossroads of knowledge - the case of the Benin "bronzes"; voices in the wilderness - critics of empire; aesthetic pleasure and institutional power; the spectacle of empire 1 - expansionism and philanthropy at the "Stanley and the African" exhibition; the spectacle of empire 2 - exhibitionary narratives; temples of empire - the museum and its publics; containing the continent - ethnographies on display; "For God and For England" - missionary contributions to an image of Africa; national unity and racial and ethnic identities - the Franco-British exhibition of 1908; conclusion; epilogue - inventing the "Post-Colonial".

Reinventing Africa Museums Material Culture Popular Imagination in Late Victorian Edwardian England

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    Publisher: Yale University Press
    Publication Date: 7/11/1997 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780300068900, 978-0300068900
    ISBN10: 0300068905
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    The arts: general topics Museology and heritage studies African history

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    British colonial expansion led to the display of many valuable African artifacts in Britain. This analysis covers the ways in which African peoples and their material culture were represented, the justifications for imperial expansion; and the effects this had on racial stereotyping.

    Table of Contents
    Material culture at the crossroads of knowledge - the case of the Benin "bronzes"; voices in the wilderness - critics of empire; aesthetic pleasure and institutional power; the spectacle of empire 1 - expansionism and philanthropy at the "Stanley and the African" exhibition; the spectacle of empire 2 - exhibitionary narratives; temples of empire - the museum and its publics; containing the continent - ethnographies on display; "For God and For England" - missionary contributions to an image of Africa; national unity and racial and ethnic identities - the Franco-British exhibition of 1908; conclusion; epilogue - inventing the "Post-Colonial".

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