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ON THE MALL
PRESENTING MAROON TRADITION-BEARERS AT THE 1992 FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLIFE |
| By: |
Richard Price, Sally Price |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0879407077 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780879407070 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1995 |
| Series: |
Special Publications of the Folklore Institute |
| Pages: |
122 |
| Description: |
Examines the practice of exhibiting people, 1990s style, within the history of living exhibitions from those at nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world's fairs to twentieth-century circus side-shows. |
| Synopsis: |
""On the Mall" engrossing, nuanced, productively and honestly critical in the best sense of the term; well written". (NRichard Bauman). Two well-know anthropologists examine the practice of exhibiting people, 1990s style, within the broader history of living exhibitions from those at nineteenth-century colonial exhibitions and world's fairs to twentieth-century circus side-shows. Engaged by the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklofe as opresenters for a group of otradition-bearers, they recount the ups and downs of their day-to-day experience trying to build bridges between African American Maroons from the Suriname forest and U.S. festival-goers on the Washington Mall. Finding the role of cultural mediators by turns exhilarating, exhausting, annoying, eye-opening, frustrating, fascinating, and alienating, they reflect on a range of issues relating to how folklorists, anthropologists, and museum curators go about the business of representing others, as well as ourselves. |
| Illustrations: |
21 photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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