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No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia / editors, Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh.
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English
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New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2015.
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xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Subject(s)
Museums
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South Asia
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Art museums
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South Asia
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Museums
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Social aspects
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South Asia
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Museums
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India
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Museums
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India
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Editor
Mathur, Saloni
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Singh, Kavita
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Series
Visual & media histories
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Summary note
"This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period"--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface / Monica Juneja
Introduction / Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
Part I. Inaugural formations. 1. The transformation of objects into artefacts, antiquities and art in 19th-century India / Bernard Cohn ; 2. The museum in the colony : collecting, conserving, classifying / Tapati Guha-Thakurta ; 3. Staging science / Gyan Prakash
Part II. National re-orientations. 4. The museum is national / Kavita Singh ; 5. Grace McCann Morley and the National Museum of India / Kristy Phillips ; 6. Museumising modern art : National Gallery of Modern Art, the Indian case-study / Vidya Shivadas
Part III. Contemporary engagements. 7. Museums are good to think : heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai & Carol A. Breckenridge ; 8. Remembering the rural in suburban Chennai : the artisanal pasts of DakshinaChitra / Mary Hancock ; 9. Reincarnations of the museum : the museum in an age of religious revivalism / Saloni Mathur & Kavita Singh
Museum watching: an introduction [13 ethnographic portraits from the field] / Tulay Atak [and twelve others]
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ISBN
9781138796010
1138796018
LCCN
2015306265
OCLC
883648427
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