What Museums For Africa

Author : Raymond Silverman,George Abungu,Peter Probst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000428643

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National Museums in Africa by Raymond Silverman,George Abungu,Peter Probst Pdf

National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives. Covering all regions of the continent, the volume’s thirteen chapters allow for a deep and nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between past and present in contemporary Africa. Taking stock of the shifting museum landscape in Africa, with new players like China and South Korea challenging the conditions of cultural exchange, the book demonstrates that national museums are being rediscovered as important sites of political engagement and cultural negotiation. This is the first book to critically examine the roles national museums in Africa have played in the societies in which they are situated, but it is also the first to consider the roles that national museums might play in current debates concerning the restitution and repatriation of cultural patrimony taken from Africa during the colonial era. Informed by a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, this ground-breaking book will appeal to anyone interested in museums in Africa. It will be particularly useful to scholars and students working in the areas of museum and heritage studies, African studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, art history and cultural studies.

Author : West African Museums Programme,International African Institute
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073271384

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Museums & History in West Africa by West African Museums Programme,International African Institute Pdf

"Representing museums throughout western Africa, including those in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, twenty-four contributors argue that their institutions must become active, research-related centres capable of developing historical knowledge and communicating it locally. They urge museums throughout the sub-region to focus their collection building strategies, to use indigenous material culture, to research recent social and cultural changes, and to harness family histories in their efforts to convey their findings more fully and root their activities more firmly in their communities."--Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015029289199

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What Museums for Africa? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Chiwaura, Henry
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789956792825

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African Museums in the Making by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Chiwaura, Henry Pdf

One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance, nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most African museums were established during the 19th and 20th centuries as European imperialists were spreading their colonial tentacles across the continent. The attainment of political independence has done little to undo or correct the obnoxious situation. Most African countries continue to practice colonial museology despite surging scholarship and calls by some Afro-centric and critical scholars the world over to address the quandaries on the continent's museum institutions. There is thus an unresolved struggle between the past and the present in the management of museums in Africa. In countries such as Zimbabwe, the struggle in museum management has been precipitated by the sharp economic downturn that has gripped the country since the turn of the millennium. In view of all these glitches, this book tackles the issue of the management of heritage in Zimbabwe. The book draws on the findings by scholars and researchers from different academic orientations and backgrounds to advance the thesis that museums and museology in Zimbabwe face problems of epic proportions that require urgent attention. It makes insightful suggestions on possible solutions to the tapestry of the inexorably enigmatic amalgam of complex problems haunting museum institutions in Zimbabwe, calling for a radical transformation of museology as a discipline in the process. This book should appeal to policy makers, scholars, researchers and students from disciplines such as museology, archaeology, social-cultural anthropology, and culture and heritage studies.

Author : West African Museums Programme
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035016693

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Museums & the Community in West Africa by West African Museums Programme Pdf

This work draws on the practical experience of the West African Museums Project in encouraging the establishment of museums which are responsive to local needs and which can contribute in vital ways to the growth and development of the community.

Author : Thomas Laely,Marc Meyer,Raphael Schwere
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783839443811

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Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe by Thomas Laely,Marc Meyer,Raphael Schwere Pdf

At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.

Author : Annie E. Coombes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300068905

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Reinventing Africa by Annie E. Coombes Pdf

Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself--the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the mass spectacle of large-scale international and missionary exhibitions and colonial exhibitions such as the "Stanley and African" of 1890; together with the critical reaction to such events in British national newspapers, the radical and humanitarian press and the West African press. Coombes argues that although endlessly reiterated racial stereotypes were disseminated through popular images of all things "African," this was no simple reproduction of imperial ideology. There were a number of different and sometimes conflicting representations of Africa and of what it was to be African--representations that varied according to political, institutional, and disciplinary pressures. The professionalization of anthropology over this period played a crucial role in the popularization of contradictory ideas about African culture to a mass public. Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.

Author : Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780252052156

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African Art Reframed by Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn Pdf

Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a history of ethnographic and art museums and look at their organization and methods of reaching out to the public. In the second part, the authors examine museums as ecosystems and communities within communities, and they use semiotic methods to analyze images, signs, and symbols drawn from the experiences of curators and artists. The third part introduces innovative strategies for displaying, disseminating, and reclaiming African art. The authors also propose how to reinterpret the art inside and outside the museum and show ways of remixing the results. Drawing on extensive conversations with curators, collectors, and artists, African Art Reframed is an essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art.

Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock,Christa Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art museums
ISBN : 0295989610

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Representing Africa in American Art Museums by Kathleen Bickford Berzock,Christa Clarke Pdf

"The first comprehensive book to focus on the history of African art in American art museums. ... Thirteen essays present the institutional biographies of African art collections in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Barnes Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indiana University of Art Museum, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the University of Iowa Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Menil Collection, and the National Museum of African Art."--back cover.

Author : Hans Fransen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Museums
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035495006

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Guide to the Museums of Southern Africa by Hans Fransen Pdf

Author : Shelly R. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134390137

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Contested Representations by Shelly R. Butler Pdf

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

Author : Sir Henry Alexander Miers,Sydney Frank Markham,Charles Squire,D. W. Herdman,Museums Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Gibraltar
ISBN : MINN:319510009423937

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A Report on the Museums and Art Galleries of British Africa by Sir Henry Alexander Miers,Sydney Frank Markham,Charles Squire,D. W. Herdman,Museums Association Pdf

Author : Alexis Adandé,E. N. Arinze
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025791794

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Museums & Urban Culture in West Africa by Alexis Adandé,E. N. Arinze Pdf

Author : S. Dubin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137057754

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Transforming Museums by S. Dubin Pdf

A detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large.

Author : P.A. Mullins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429514531

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Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums by P.A. Mullins Pdf

This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in American Museums explores black identity as a changing, nuanced concept. Focusing on racial history in the United States, this book examines two of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the United States. First, there is a history of race and ideas of primitiveness is presented. Next, there is a discussion of western concepts of race. Then there is an examination of Karl Steckelmann, the first collector who is a united states citizen. After which there is a critical account of William H. Sheppard, the second collector who is also a black Presbyterian Minister from Virginia. Then a broader discussion of public appearances of Black African images in public. This is followed by a detailed look at museum formation and practices. Next, there is a theoretical discussion of identity and race, and finally, a look at the impact of historical practices that continue into the 21st century. This book will be of interest to scholars of race and racism, African visual culture, heritage and museum studies.