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Informationen zum Autor Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds. Klappentext Analyzes the ways national histories are told in public representations, with a particular focus on the ways race and the imperial experience are incorporated into national narratives. Zusammenfassung Historians! anthropologists! and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums! monuments! texts! and festivals around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Introduction / Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz 1 First Things First Two Peoples, One Museum: Biculturalism and Visitor "Experience" at Te Papa—Our Place, New Zealand's National Museum / Charlotte J. MacDonald 29 Contesting Time, Place, and Nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips 49 "Unfinished Business": Public History in a Postcolonial Nation / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton 71 Colonial Legacies and Winners' Tales Exhibiting Asia in Britain: Commerce, Consumption, and Globalization / Durba Ghosh 99 The Alamo: Myth, Public History, and the Politics of Inclusion / Richard R. Flores 122 Ellis Island Redux: The Imperial Turn and the Race of Ethnicity / Daniel J. Walkowitz 136 State Stories A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a Postapartheid South Africa / Albert Grundlingh 155 Narratives of Power, the Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the Ecuadorian Nation / O. Hugo Benavides 178 Affective Distinctions: Race and Place in Oaxaca / Deborah Poole 197 Under-Stated Stories Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Monuments in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher 227 Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba": Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Tourism and the Progressive State in Brazil / Paul Amar 239 Afrocuban Religion, Museums, and the Cuban Nation / Lisa Maya Knauer 280 Haunting Delgrès / Laurent Dubois 311 Bibliography 329 Contributors 353 Index 357...
