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<p>The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as in
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- Author
- Shelley Ruth Butler
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781134390137
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Computer Science, Travel
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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