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6. Temples of Empire: The Museum and Its Publics
Annie E. Coombes
Description: Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late...
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
~It is clear from the previous chapters that certain assumptions about race and racial characteristics, in relation to Africa, were already common currency among at least a substantial middle-class public. That such assumptions were also associated at some level with the rise of...
Author
Annie E. Coombes
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1994 by Annie E.S. Coombes
Related print edition pages: pp.109-128
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00307.7
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22488
Chapter subject tags:Material cultureMuseums--Great BritainImperialismEthnological museums and collectionsPitt Rivers MuseumHorniman, Frederick John, 1835-1906

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