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The Museumization of Fascism: “Functional Substitutes for Fascism” In the Era of Globalization
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 96–107.
Published: 01 August 1998
... non-Marxists see the ing so relegated the “fascist situation” to the museum of
state as something above class that exists independ- history. Most of my specific criticisms that follow fit
ently of class pressure.’ He is also correct in assert- broadly into these categories.
ing...
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Palimpsests of Multiculturalism and Museumization of Culture: Greco-Turkish Population Exchange Museum as an Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 324–345.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Aslı Iğsız In 2010, the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum opened its doors as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project. Presented as the first migration-themed museum of Turkey, it is a site of cultural recollection focused on family histories. Yet the museum...
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British Library and Museum, Swargadeo Siva Simha and Ambika Devi in the Tun...
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in “Two Kings” in the Tungkhungia Court?: Love and Courtly Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Hindustan
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 1. British Library and Museum, Swargadeo Siva Simha and Ambika Devi in the Tungkhungia Court, Dharmapurana, MS. 11386, folio 003.
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Stele from Phanigiri (third century CE), State Museum, Hyderabad. Photograp...
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in The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 10. Stele from Phanigiri (third century CE), State Museum, Hyderabad. Photograph by the author.
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On Artists and Artisans: The Experimental Worlds of Shahzia Sikander
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 486–491.
Published: 01 December 2015
... critic might direct toward specific artists, or singular artworks. These questions assume added significance against the backdrop of a rapidly globalizing museum culture, supported by the concomitant rise in museum construction as supportive infrastructure for new sites of spectacle and speculation. ©...
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The Crisis of the Humanities in Egypt
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 142–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... methods in universities, and distorted admissions policies that disadvantage the humanities. The dismal failure to encourage Egyptian university students to consider Egyptology as a major and the depressing state of the country's museums and archives are cited as particularly poignant signs of the crisis...
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Crafting Innovation, Weaving Sustainability: Theorizing Indian Handloom Weaving as Sociotechnology
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 241–248.
Published: 01 August 2019
... of “handloom.” Yet weavers, like other craftspeople in India, stand in the shadow of deep divisions: rich/poor, urban/rural, modern/traditional, Brahmin/Dalit, educated scientist/illiterate laborer. As a system of knowledge, handloom weaving is associated with a museumized past rather than a promising future...
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“What Is Religion?”
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Abstract This review of Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic explores the value of Ahmed's theory of religion through an analysis of some objects presented in Heavenly Bodies , a 2018 exhibit of Catholic fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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To Have and to Hold: Understanding Cultural and Biological Property in Turkey
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 18–33.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Can Dalyan Abstract Heritage politics in Turkey came under global scrutiny in July 2020 following the conversion of the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul back into a mosque, and then again in October 2020 after the confiscation of ancient and modern seed collections residing at the British Institute...
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The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 10. Stele from Phanigiri (third century CE), State Museum, Hyderabad. Photograph by the author. ...
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In the Pursuit of Knowledge and Power: French Scienctific Research in West Africa, 1938-65
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 335–344.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., the enumerative modality,
French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française- the museum modality, and the surveillance modality.
A.O.F.) drew on the traditions of governance in France. These modalities were either general, attached to spe-
Replicas of metropolitan institutions such as the ad- cific...
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Revolution and Rehearsal in the Global South: Unlearning the Archive
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 517–530.
Published: 01 August 2022
... an alternative history of art, or unearth other artists that were not yet shown in the museum, but to abolish the museum that dominates the understanding of art as a non-worldly practice pursued by individuals and whose objects are destined to be displayed rather than being part of community life. Potential...
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Art, Activism, and the Presence of Memory in Palestine: Interview with Palestinian Artist Rana Bishara
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 122–145.
Published: 01 May 2021
... was always talking then about creating a “Memory Museum.” Figure 16. Rana Bishara, Abu-Lughod Resting in Yafa (2002), watercolor and tar on paper, 50 x 65 cm. Photo credit: Rana Bishara. Figure 16. Rana Bishara, Abu-Lughod Resting in Yafa (2002), watercolor and tar on paper, 50 x 65 cm. Photo...
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Drawing in the Digital Field: Shahzia Sikander's The Last Post (2010)
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 492–504.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Media Art in Asia , edited by Chang Sunkang , 55 – 68 . Seoul : National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art , 2014 . Drawing in the Digital Field
Shahzia Sikander’s The Last Post (2010)
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rawing, the act...
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in Art, Activism, and the Presence of Memory in Palestine: Interview with Palestinian Artist Rana Bishara
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 15a–b. Rana Bishara, The Road Map for Elimination (2006–ongoing), room installation, 240 × 400 × 400 cm, Palestinian Museum, 2019–20, OCHA and Badil maps, dried and green cactus, black threads, and mobile: (a) vertical view, (b) detail. Photo credit: (a) Rana Bishara, (b) Hareth Yousef
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in Art, Activism, and the Presence of Memory in Palestine: Interview with Palestinian Artist Rana Bishara
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 15a–b. Rana Bishara, The Road Map for Elimination (2006–ongoing), room installation, 240 × 400 × 400 cm, Palestinian Museum, 2019–20, OCHA and Badil maps, dried and green cactus, black threads, and mobile: (a) vertical view, (b) detail. Photo credit: (a) Rana Bishara, (b) Hareth Yousef
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Empires and Equines: The Horse in Art and Exchange in South Asia, ca. 1600-ca. 1850
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... Cummins, and Stephen Thompson for their comments and advice. References Fazl Abu’l . Ain-i Akbari . Edited by Blochmann H. . 2 vols . Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal , 1873 . Ahmad Aziz . “ The British Museum Mārzānāma and the Seventeenth-Century Mārzā in India...
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in New Methods for Governing Death in Istanbul: Early Modern Ottoman Necropolitics
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Turkish Burial , from the Travel Album of Bartholomäus Schachman (3v), 1590. Orientalist Museum, Doha, OM. 749.
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Jewish Spaces in Egypt as Sites of Memory
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 219–233.
Published: 01 August 2024
... by Magda Harun. See an interview with her: The British Museum “Closing the Door: The Last Jews of Cairo.” In addition, this view is supported Jewish heritage tourism guide Munir Mahmoud (pers. comm., December 28, 2020). 36. Winter, “Sites of Memory,” 317 . 37. See this statement in Qāsem...
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Nizwa Fort: Transforming Ibadi Religion through Heritage Discourse in Oman
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 328–343.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Ibadi Islam in the process. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 nation building sultanate of Oman heritage museums Ibadi Imamate On one of my first visits to the fort at Nizwa, the historic town in the interior of Oman, I noticed a picture I had not seen before. An old black...
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