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Glass doors at the entrance to the Museum of Mankind, London

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Description: Glass doors at the entrance to the Museum of Mankind, London
TitleGlass doors at the entrance to the Museum of Mankind, London
Creator nameUnknown
Creator name (description)Photo by Annie E. Coombes
Creator nationality/cultureUnknown
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation dateUnknown
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsUnknown
LocationBritish Museum, Museum of Mankind, London
SubjectsPostcolonialismMuseums--Great Britain
StatusShowing a Benin bronze figure engraved into the glass
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Epilogue: Inventing the ‘Post-Colonial’
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
~Clearly, it would be overdetermined to presume a tidy continuum between ideologies marking the formation of anthropology as a discipline in the early twentieth century, and the present ‘post-colonial’ context. I want to suggest, however, that some vestiges of these earlier preoccupations remain at the root of contemporary debates on the value of...
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Annie E. Coombes
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1994 by Annie E.S. Coombes
Related print edition pages: pp.217-225
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00307.12
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22493&redirecttoanchor=78333
Chapter subject tags:PostcolonialismMaterial cultureCultural fusionMuseums--Great Britain

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