Translating Museums
A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Published on 16. June 2016
301 pages
978-1-315-41643-4 (ISBN)
Description
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. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implications and appropriations. Through Lahore, Bhatti examines the history of exchange between Britian and South Asia and advances our current understanding of what constitutes postcolonial museum interpretation and its public.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Illustrations
File size
33,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-315-41643-4 (9781315416434)
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06/2012
1st Edition
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06/2012
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Person
Shaila Bhatti
Content
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'
