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Author Bhatti, Shaila, 1975-

Title Translating museums : a counterhistory of South Asian museology / Shaila Bhatti.

Publication Info. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Critical cultural heritage series ; v. 9
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of Illustrations; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Museums in Translation: The Birth of the Museum in Colonial India; 2. Colonial Mementos to Postcolonial Imaginings: The Transformation of the Lahore Museum; 3. Museum Archons: The Habitual Discourse of the Lahore Museum; 4. Visiting the Museum: Curiosity about the Ajaib Ghar; 5. Nokta Nazar of the Lahore Museum's 'Audience'; Epilogue; Glossary; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.
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. 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.
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Subject Lahore Museum (Pakistan)
Lahore Museum (Pakistan)
Museum techniques -- Pakistan.
Museum techniques.
Pakistan.
Museums -- Pakistan -- Philosophy.
Museums.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bhatti, Shaila, 1975- Translating museums. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2012 9781611321449 (DLC) 2011051065 (OCoLC)764364257
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