NEOCOLONIAL COLLABORATION: Museum as Contact Zone Revisited

Museum Anthropology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-70

  Boast, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contact zones; Local knowledge ; Museum studies; Neocolonialism; Postcolonialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954534545     PISSN: 08928339     EISSN: 15481379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1379.2010.01107.x     Document Type: Article

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