No touching, no spitting, no praying : the museum in South Asia / editors, Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Delhi : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2015.
Description
xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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      Editor
      Series
      Visual & media histories [More in this series]
      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.
      Bibliographic references
      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]
      • About the editors
      • About the series editor
      • Notes on contributors.
      ISBN
      • 9781138796010
      • 1138796018
      LCCN
      2015306265
      OCLC
      883648427
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