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  Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display (Paperback) By (author) Conal McCarthy

  

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  Short Description for Exhibiting MaoriPresents a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture since the nineteenth century. This book traces the long journey from curio to specimen, artefact, art and taonga (treasure). It draws on research to tell the remarkable story of Maori resistance to, involvement in, and eventual capture of the display of their culture.
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  • Publisher: Berg Publishers
  • Published: 01 March 2007
  • Format: Paperback 264 pages
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  • Categories: Art History | Museums & Museology | Indigenous Peoples | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Australasian & Pacific History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9781845204754 ISBN 10: 1845204751
  • Sales rank: 385,740

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• This title cannot be sold by Berg to customers in Australia and New Zealand. Customers in these countries can purchase this title from Te Papa Museum Press in New Zealand.This richly illustrated book presents a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture from the nineteenth century to today. In doing so, Exhibiting Maori traces the long journey from curio to specimen, artefact, art and taonga (treasure). Drawing on extensive and groundbreaking research, Exhibiting Maori reveals for the first time the remarkable story of Maori resistance to, involvement in, and eventual capture of the display of their culture.Ranging across museums, world fairs, fine art and tourism, Exhibiting Maori fuses museum studies, anthropology, and visual and material culture to uncover a history of active Maori engagement with the colonial culture of display.