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    Written culture in a colonial context Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900 /

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Smith's writing lesson: archive and representation in 19th century Araucanía / André Menard -- Missionary knowledge in context: geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries / Hervé Pennec -- From travelling to history: an outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century / Adrien Delmas -- Towards an archaeology of globalisation: readings and writings of Tommaso Campanella on a theological-political empire between the Old and the New worlds (16th-17th centuries) / Fabián Javier Ludueña Romandini -- Charlevoix and the American savage: the 18th-century traveller as moralist / David J. Culpin -- Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: from travel writing to Kolb's 'full description' / Nigel Penn -- Nothing new under the sun: anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1800-1910 / Peter Merrington -- Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century / Julio Esteban Vezub -- To my dear minister: official letters of African Wesleyan evangelists in the late 19th-century Transvaal / Lize Kriel -- Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: documents and practices across spaces and social economics / Mastin Prinsloo -- The 'painting' of Black history: the Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) / Jorge Pavez Ojeda -- On not spreading the Word: ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century / Gerald Groenewald -- Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture / José Emilio Burucúa.…”
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    Museum politics power plays at the exhibition / by Luke, Timothy W.

    Published 2002
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.…”
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    Landscapes of clearance archaeological and anthropological perspectives /

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The past is another country: archaeology in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Kathryn Mathers & Neels Kruger -- Driekopseiland rock engraving site, South Africa: a pre-colonial landscape lost and re-membered / David Morris -- Constructing the wilderness and clearing the landscape: a legacy of colonialism in northern British Columbia / Brenda Guernsey -- Ethno-archaeological study of clearance in Palestine / Juliana Nairouz -- The domestication of landscape through naming and symbolic protection among the Batswapong peoples of eastern Botswana: fullness and emptiness of landscapes in the eyes of the beholder / Phillip Segadika -- Enclosing the spirit / Peter Read -- New places for old: the re-inhabitation of cleared landscapes in northern Scotland / Olivia Lelong -- The devonshires held this trench, they hold it still: cultural landscape of sacrifice, the problem of the sacred ground of the Great War 1914-1918 / Jon Price -- Archaeological taxonomy, Native Americans, and scientific landscapes of clearance: a case study from northeastern Iowa / Larry J. …”
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