Pamela Erskine-Loftus Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla Victoria Hightower
The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of national museums, institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. "Representing the Nation" examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of national identity projection via consideration of their motivations, implications (current and future), possible historical backgrounds, official and unofficial meanings, and meanings for both the user/visitor and the multiple creators. The book responds to, due to the importance placed on...
The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of national museums, institutions aimed at creating social co...
