Possessors and Possessed

Possessors and Possessed
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780520928565
ISBN-13 : 0520928563
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Book Synopsis Possessors and Possessed by : Wendy Shaw

Download or read book Possessors and Possessed written by Wendy Shaw and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums—characteristically Western institutions—emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. In contrast to late-nineteenth-century Euro-American museums, which utilized organizational schema based on positivist notions of progress to organize exhibits of fine arts, Ottoman museums featured military spoils and antiquities long before they turned to the "Islamic" collections with which they might have been more readily associated. The development of these various modes of collection reflected shifting moments in Ottoman identity production. Shaw shows how Ottoman museums were able to use collection and exhibition as devices with which to weave counter-colonial narratives of identity for the Ottoman Empire. Impressive for both the scope and the depth of its research, Possessors and Possessed lays the groundwork for future inquiries into the development of museums outside of the Euro-American milieu.


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