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

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

Annie E. Coombes

Yale University Press, 1994

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and index

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ISBN 9780300059724

内容説明

Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many valuable African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. This fascinating book analyses the ways in which African peoples and their material culture were represented in Britain at this time, the justifications for imperial expansion implicit in the displays, and the effects that this had on racial stereotyping and prejudice. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself - the effects of which are still with us today. The author discusses the principal means by which African culture was presented to the British public: ethnographic collections housed in private and state museums; large-scale international and colonial exhibitions, such as the "Stanley and the African" exhibition of 1890; missionary societies and the British and African press treatment of these displays. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African - representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures and to the professionalization of anthropology over this period. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of culture, imperialism, and anthropology, social historians, anthropologists, and museologists.

目次

  • 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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: pbk ISBN 9780300068900

内容説明

Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself-the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the mass spectacle of large-scale international and missionary exhibitions and colonial exhibitions such as the "Stanley and African" of 1890; together with the critical reaction to such events in British national newspapers, the radical and humanitarian press and the West African press. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African-representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures. The professionalization of anthropology over this period played a crucial role in the popularization of contradictory ideas about African culture to a mass public. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.

目次

  • 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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