The Art of Minorities : : Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa /

The Art of Minorities : : Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa / / Virginie Rey.

Explores the representation of minority cultures in museums of the Middle East and North AfricaSets out a new way of understanding cultural representations in non-Western museumsEncourages a multidisciplinary/non-Western-centric reading of Middle Eastern museumsIncludes 13 case studies based on fiel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Rey, Virginie ,
MitwirkendeR:
Boum, Aomar,
Cirianni Salazar, Lucía,
Dagher, Rhéa,
De Micheli, Francesca,
Eccarius-Kelly, Vera,
Holman, Zoe,
Ishak Bakhoum, Dina,
Kalindjian, Rita,
Kazdaghli, Habib,
Pascoe, Stephen,
Pieprzak, Katarzyna,
Rey, Virginie,
Rogers, Amanda,
Wakefield, Sarina,
Willis, John Thabiti,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Alternative Histories : ALHI
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 69 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction – Engaging with ‘Minority’ Voices: Cultural Representation in Museums of the Middle East and North Africa
  • Exhibiting Minorities
  • 2 The Ethnographisation of Syrian Society at the Azem Palace of Damascus: From Compact Minorities to Toponymical Identity
  • 3 ‘The Performance of Servitude’: Gendered and Racialised Representations of Citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum
  • 4 Minority Audience: The Oudayas Museum and the Manufacturing of Elitism in Moroccan Museums
  • 5 Lodges of Debate: Two Museumised Sufi Tekkes in Anatolia
  • Minorities Exhibiting
  • 6 Museums, Migrant Labourers and Ethnic Spatiality in the United Arab Emirates
  • 7 Paving the Way for a Lebanese National Narrative: Empathy at the Armenian Genocide Orphans’ Aram Bezikian Museum in Lebanon
  • 8 A National Museum for a People Without a Land: The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit
  • 9 Egypt’s Coptic Museum: From Patriarchal to National
  • 10 Branding Convivencia: Jewish Museums and the Reinvention of a Moroccan Andalus in Essaouira
  • Imagined Museums
  • 11 Is Tunisia Ready for a Jewish Museum? Perspectives on the Current Debates Surrounding the Status of Jewish Heritage in my Country
  • 12 ‘Do I Even Exist?’ Kurdish Diaspora Artists Reflect on Imaginary Exhibits in a Kurdistan Museum
  • 13 Islamic State’s Archive of the Digital Infinite: Imagined Museums, New Media and Conflict Capitalism
  • 14 Afterword – Minoritised Memory and Affect in a Museology of Disaster
  • Index

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