Translating Museums - A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology

List of contents

Chapter 1: Museums in Translation; Chapter 2: Colonial Mementos to Postcolonial Imaginings; Chapter 3: Museum Archons 1; Chapter 4: Visiting the Museum; Chapter 5: Nokta Nazar 1 of the Lahore Museum's ‘Audience'

About the author

Shaila Bhatti

Summary

Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum.

Product details

• Authors: Shaila Bhatti
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9781611321449
• ISBN: 978-1-61132-144-9
• No. of pages: 301
• Weight: 589 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias