1st Edition
Translating Museums A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology
By Shaila Bhatti
Copyright 2012
301 Pages
by
Routledge
301 Pages
by
Routledge
301 Pages
by
Routledge
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Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and... Read more
Chapter 1: Museums in Translation; Chapter 2: Colonial Mementos to Postcolonial Imaginings; Chapter 3: Museum Archons 1; Chapter 4: Visiting the Museum; Chapter 5: Nokta Nazar 1 of the Lahore Museum's ‘Audience'
Biography
Shaila Bhatti
