Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the

About the Series vii
Introduction / Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz 1
First Things First
Two Peoples, One Museum: Biculturalism and Visitor "Experience" at Te Papa—Our Place, New Zealand's National Museum / Charlotte J. MacDonald 29
Contesting Time, Place, and Nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips 49
"Unfinished Business": Public History in a Postcolonial Nation / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton 71
Colonial Legacies and Winners' Tales
Exhibiting Asia in Britain: Commerce, Consumption, and Globalization / Durba Ghosh 99
The Alamo: Myth, Public History, and the Politics of Inclusion / Richard R. Flores 122
Ellis Island Redux: The Imperial Turn and the Race of Ethnicity / Daniel J. Walkowitz 136
State Stories
A Cultural Conundrum? Old Monuments and New Regimes: The Voortrekker Monument as Symbol of Afrikaner Power in a Postapartheid South Africa / Albert Grundlingh 155
Narratives of Power, the Power of Narratives: The Failing Foundational Narrative of the Ecuadorian Nation / O. Hugo Benavides 178
Affective Distinctions: Race and Place in Oaxaca / Deborah Poole 197
Under-Stated Stories
Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Monuments in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher 227
Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba": Outlaw Uprisings, Racial Tourism and the Progressive State in Brazil / Paul Amar 239
Afrocuban Religion, Museums, and the Cuban Nation / Lisa Maya Knauer 280
Haunting Delgrès / Laurent Dubois 311
Bibliography 329
Contributors 353
Index 357

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