The Filipino Primitive : : Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum / / Sarita Echavez See.

How museums’ visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulationSarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulation-capitalist, colonial, and racial-than in the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 40 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Archive: Dispossession by Accumulation
  • 1. Progress through the Museum
  • 2. Foreign in a Domestic Space
  • Part II. The Repertoire of Dispossession
  • 3. Lessons from the Illiterate
  • 4. The Booty and Beauty of Contemporary Filipino/American Art
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author