Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds; Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation.The book 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; and key chapters address issues of radical identity across cultural barriers; and the hybird styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet.Colonialism and the Object is essential reading for all those interested in post-colonial theory; museum studies; material culture and design history.
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