
Contested Histories in Public Space
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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
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