wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and South Africa
ISBN: 9780719071690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
In each of these countries these communities were displaced, marginalised and sometimes subjected to attempted genocide through the colonial process. Recently these groups have renewed their claims for greater political representation and autonomy. The essays and artwork in this book insist that an understanding of the political and cultural institutions and practices which shaped... Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Aus...
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110,41 zł |
Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization
ISBN: 9781119642046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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303,49 zł |
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
ISBN: 9780300068900 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself-the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the...
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and...
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280,16 zł |
History After Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa
ISBN: 9780822330721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginning of a new struggle to define the nation's past. "History after Apartheid" analyzes how, in the midst of the momentous shift to an inclusive democracy, South Africa's visual and material culture represented the past while at the same time contributing to the process of social transformation. Considering attempts to invent and recover historical icons and narratives, art historian Annie E. Coombes examines how strategies for embodying different models of historical...
The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginning of a new struggle to d...
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132,50 zł |
Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya
ISBN: 9781780761527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At this important juncture, what parts of its history, including the Mau Mau uprising, do citizens and state wish to remember and commemorate and what is best forgotten or occluded? What does heritage mean to ordinary Kenyans, and what role does it play in building nationhood and forging peace and reconciliation?
Focusing on the 1990s to the present, Managing Heritage, Making Peace is a timely exploration of the ways in which Kenyans are... Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At t...
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682,09 zł |
Hybridity and its Discontents : Politics, Science, Culture
ISBN: 9780415194037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The contributors trace manifestations of hybridity in debates about miscengenation and racial purity, in scientific notions of genetics and 'race', in processes of cultural translation, and in ideas of nation, community and belonging. The contributors begin by examining the persistence of anxieties about racial 'contamination', from 19th-century fears of miscegenation to more recent debates about...
This text explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain...
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194,08 zł |
Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya
ISBN: 9780755601141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At this important juncture, what parts of its history, including the Mau Mau uprising, do citizens and state wish to remember and commemorate and what is best forgotten or occluded? What does heritage mean to ordinary Kenyans, and what role does it play in building nationhood and forging peace and reconciliation? Focusing on the 1990s to the present, "Managing Heritage, Making Peace" is a timely exploration of the ways in which Kenyans are engaging...
Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At t...
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178,34 zł |