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- Title
The Museum as Rift Zone – The Construction and Representation of "East" and "Central" Africa in the (Belgian) Congo Museum/Royal Museum for Central Africa.
- Authors
Couttenier, Maarten
- Abstract
This article discusses how the (post)colonial museum in Tervuren helped to create an artificial separation between "East" and "Central" Africa on both sides of Lake Tanganyika, while in reality this was and still is a zone of encounter. The exclusion of the "Arab" was twofold. First, East African objects were not exhibited. Second, "Eastern" material culture that was collected in Central Africa, became represented as imported traces of "barbary," only highlighting the "civilizing mission" of European colonization.
- Subjects
HISTORY of museums; EAST African history; CENTRAL African history; HISTORY of material culture; HISTORY of colonization; EUROPEAN civilization
- Publication
History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 2019, Vol 46, p327
- ISSN
0361-5413
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/hia.2019.7