This volume was part of series titled 'Contributions in Critical Museology and Material Culture' published by the Horniman Museum and Gardens. Included are the following papers: The Idea of 'Pusaka' as an Indiginous Form of Cultural Heritage Preservation (Christina Kreps), Museums and the Transformation from Colonial to Post-colonial institutions in Indonesia: A Case Study of the Indonesian National Museum, formerly the Batavia Museum (Katherine E. McGregor); Between Forgetting and Remembering: Singaporean History and the Singapore History Museum (Nicole Tarulevicz; At Nias or from Nias? Museum displays, national images and local reality in a West Indonesian island (Laurens Bakker); Jacques de Morgan (1857-1924) and Orang Asli material culture (Antonio J. Guerreiro); Sights of Reference: photography in the construction of an 'ethnographic' record (Sudeshna Guha); Woven traditions, collectors and tourists: a field report from Savu, eastern Indonesia (Genevieve Duggan); Puppets and Control: The image of the string puppet in Southeast Asia (Poh Sim Plowright); Wayang Kulit as Contact Zone (Matthew Isaac Cohen; Ogoh-ogoh: a 'new tradition' in transformation (Laura Noszlopy); and Collecting the modern city: material culture and people in Kunming, Southern China (Andy West).
Performing Objects: Museums, material Culture and Performance in Southeast Asia (edited by Fiona Kerlogue, 2004)
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Letter by Kathleen Kennet regarding the donation of Scott objects to the Horniman Museum
Black and white print of man standing outside simple church building with cross on roof
Photograph of 'Part of the accounts and planning offices'
16th April. Pingyuan Shao village, Guiyang. Two children.
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