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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Alternative Histories Ser.
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Alternative Histories Ser.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Engaging with 'Minority' Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa -- Exhibiting Minorities -- 2 The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical Identity -- 3 'The Performance of Servitude': Gendered and Racialised Representations of Citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum |
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4 Minority Audience: The Oudayas Museum and the Manufacturing of Elitism in Moroccan Museums -- 5 Lodges of Debate: Two Museumised Sufi Tekkes in Anatolia -- Minorities Exhibiting -- 6 Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab Emirates -- 7 Paving the Way for a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide Orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon -- 8 A National Museum for a People Without a Land: The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit -- 9 Egypt's Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to National |
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10 Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira -- Imagined Museums -- 11 Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my Country -- 12 'Do I Even Exist?' Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan Museum -- 13 Islamic State's Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict Capitalism -- 14 Afterword -- Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of Disaster -- Index |
| Summary |
Against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that have shaken the region in recent years, the contributors to this volume interrogate a range of case studies from across the region - examining how museums engage inclusion, diversity and the politics of minority identities. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Museums -- Middle East.
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Museums. |
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Middle East. |
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Museums -- Africa, North.
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North Africa. |
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Museums and minorities -- Middle East.
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Museums and minorities. |
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Museums and minorities -- Africa, North.
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Multiculturalism -- Middle East.
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Multiculturalism. |
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Multiculturalism -- Africa, North.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1474443761 9781474443760 (OCoLC)1117548564 |
| ISBN |
9781474443791 (electronic book) |
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1474443796 (electronic book) |
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1474443761 |
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9781474443760 |
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