"A gold mine for teaching and the rarest of ethnographic studies, Butler's study carries us into the heart of one of the most divisive cultural firestorms to ever hit museums." - Jeffrey Feldman, New York University
"A gold mine for teaching and the rarest of ethnographic studies, Butler's study carries us into the heart of one of the most divisive cultural firestorms to ever hit museums." - Jeffrey Feldman, New York University
Shelley Ruth Butler is an anthropologist and research fellow at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. She has written numerous articles on the politics of museum exhibitions and on tourism in South Africa.
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List of Illustrations Foreword by Anthony Shelton Acknowledgements I. Entering the Debates Reading the Royal Ontario Museum Coming into the Field Museum Ethnography Looking Ahead Final Notes on the Forum II. Into the Heart of Africa and the Status Quo The Status Quo Toward a Reflexive Museology Re-presenting Imperialism: A Personal Walk Through the Exhibit After the Fact Museums Will Be Museums III. Prelude to the Controversy The Ambiguity of Irony Power Relations and Public Culture The Politics of Consultation IV. The Coalition for the Truth about Africa: Strategies and Challenges Performing Resistance The Politics of Contestation Experiences of "Otherness" Democratizing Museums A Counter Text: The CFTA Pamphlet Contradictions of Resistance Racism and Multiculturalism: Articulating a Contradiction V. Various Positions: Responses to the Coalition for the Truth about Africa Beyond Into the Heart of Africa Authority at/of the ROM Classroom Confrontations Media Conclusions: Radicalizing the CFTA The Academy and Complex Subject Positions The Black Community: "Protest and Process" Victims and Victimization Other Voices at the ROM Outcomes Afterword: Canonizing an Exhibition, Renovating the ROM Appendix: Coalition for the Truth about Africa Pamphlet Notes References Index
List of Illustrations Foreword by Anthony Shelton Acknowledgements I. Entering the Debates Reading the Royal Ontario Museum Coming into the Field Museum Ethnography Looking Ahead Final Notes on the Forum II. Into the Heart of Africa and the Status Quo The Status Quo Toward a Reflexive Museology Re-presenting Imperialism: A Personal Walk Through the Exhibit After the Fact Museums Will Be Museums III. Prelude to the Controversy The Ambiguity of Irony Power Relations and Public Culture The Politics of Consultation IV. The Coalition for the Truth about Africa: Strategies and Challenges Performing Resistance The Politics of Contestation Experiences of "Otherness" Democratizing Museums A Counter Text: The CFTA Pamphlet Contradictions of Resistance Racism and Multiculturalism: Articulating a Contradiction V. Various Positions: Responses to the Coalition for the Truth about Africa Beyond Into the Heart of Africa Authority at/of the ROM Classroom Confrontations Media Conclusions: Radicalizing the CFTA The Academy and Complex Subject Positions The Black Community: "Protest and Process" Victims and Victimization Other Voices at the ROM Outcomes Afterword: Canonizing an Exhibition, Renovating the ROM Appendix: Coalition for the Truth about Africa Pamphlet Notes References Index
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