Main entry:

Shaw, Wendy M. K., 1970-

Title & Author:

Possessors and possessed : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire / Wendy M.K. Shaw.

Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003.

Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Moving toward the museum : the collection of antique spolia -- Parallel collections of weapons and antiquities -- The rise of the imperial museum -- The dialectic of law and infringement -- Technologies of collection : railroads and cameras -- Antiquities collections in the imperial museum -- Islamic arts in imperial collections -- Military collections in the late empire -- Islamic and archaeological antiquities after the Young Turk Revolution.

Summary:

Annotation A history of the creation of museums in Ottoman Turkey, which demonstrates that museum-building was both a product of and a response to European imperialism. Having learned to value their antiquities, the Ottomans proceeded to use them as visual manifestations of emerging nationalism.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0520233352
9780520233355

Subject:

Museums Turkey History.
Museums Collection management Turkey History.
Museums History. Turkey.
Museums History. Collection management Turkey.
Musées Turquie Histoire.
Musées Gestion des collections Turquie Histoire.
15.75 history of Asia.
Museums.
Museums Collection management.
Musea.
Archeologie.
Visualisatie.
Musées Collections publiques Turquie Histoire.
Turkey History. Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Turkey.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231021
Call No.: AM79.T8 S5 2003
Status: Available