Mediating museums : exhibiting material culture in Tunisia (1881-2016) /

Mediating museums : exhibiting material culture in Tunisia (1881-2016) /

This book documents and interprets the trajectory of ethnographic museums in Tunisia from the colonial to the post-revolutionary period, demonstrating changes and continuities in role, setting and architecture across shifting ideological landscapes. The display of everyday culture in museums is gene...

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Main Author: Rey, Virginie, 1978- (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Studies in the History and Society of the Maghrib 11.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

Subjects:

Ethnological museums and collections > Tunisia > History.
Group identity > Tunisia.
Material culture > Tunisia > Exhibitions.

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Call Number: GN36.T8 R48 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Transliteration
  • Map
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • Artisanship Revival in the Maghreb
  • The Tunisian Arts
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • Le centre des arts et traditions populaires
  • Les musées d'arts et traditions populaires
  • Carving a Modern Tunisian Identity in Traditions
  • Le patrimoine vivant
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • Turning Traditional Culture into Heritage
  • The Heteronomous Pole of Cultural Production
  • Museums and Communities
  • Introduction to Part 4
  • The Field of Museum Production
  • The Journey of an Ethnographic Museum from the Colonial to the Post-Revolutionary
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.