Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:16:43 -0700 From: Pat Morton <pamorton-AT-ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Museumizing the 'other'/'Native' as spectacle? My book, Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris (MIT Press, 2000), has a chapter on displays of natives at the Exposition. I describe the displays and the anticolonial resistance generated by these displays. (Forgive the self-promotion.) You might also find the chapter on the Musée des Colonies (now the Musée d'Art océanien et africain) useful. Other sources: Burton Benedict, The Anthropology of World's Fairs (London and Berkeley: Scolar Press, 1983). Benedict analyzes the different types of human displays and their function within colonial representational regimes. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988). Annie E. Coombes, Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994). Carol Duncan, Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London and New York: Routledge, 1995). Paul Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas: world exhibitions, 1851-1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988). Sally Price, Primitive Art in Civilized Places (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). Robert Rydell's books on American world's fairs contain extensive sections on their human displays. All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984); and World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). An excellent anthology on museums: Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politcs of Museum Display (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991). I also have sources in French, if anyone is interested. Patricia Morton Art History Department University of California, Riverside <pamorton-AT-ix.netcom.com> --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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