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This essay discusses the re-evaluation of colonialism and how museums should display objects from the post-colonial world. The essay includes case studies of objects from different parts of the world that were collected or exhibited by the British Empire. The essay also discusses the implications of colonialism on race and identity.
The post-colonial world has seen a major re-evaluation, theoretical as well as political of the institutions and ideologies of colonialism. These innovative theoretical analyses have opened up new approaches to how we should display colonial objects in a post-colonial world. Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object includes intensive case studies of objects from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, China and Africa, all of which were collected by or exhibited in the institutions of the British Empire. Other chapters address issues of racial identity across cultural barriers, and the hybrid styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet.
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