Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 269 p)
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ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520233352
Content:
Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums-characteristically Western institutions-emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. In contrast to late-nineteenth-century Euro-American museums, which utilized organizational schema based on positivist notions of progress to organize exhibits of fine arts, Ottoman museums featured military spoils
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Orthography; INTRODUCTION; 1. MOVING TOWARD THE MUSEUM: THE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE SPOLIA; 2. PARALLEL COLLECTIONS OF WEAPONS AND ANTIQUITIES; 3. THE RISE OF THE IMPERIAL MUSEUM; 4. THE DIALECTIC OF LAW AND INFRINGEMENT; 5. TECHNOLOGIES OF COLLECTION: RAILROADS AND CAMERAS; 6. ANTIQUITIES COLLECTIONS IN THE IMPERIAL MUSEUM; 7. ISLAMIC ARTS IN IMPERIAL COLLECTIONS; 8. MILITARY COLLECTIONS IN THE LATE EMPIRE; 9. ISLAMIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANTIQUITIES AFTER THE YOUNG TURK REVOLUTION; CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C
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DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520233355
Additional Edition:
Print version Possessors and Possessed : Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language:
English
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