http://www.metafilter.com/tags/colionalism Posts tagged with 'colionalism' at MetaFilter. Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:20:39 -0800 Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:20:39 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/42530/Other%2DAfricas <a href="http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/otherafricas/O-Aset.html">Other Africas.</a> Critical observers have long noted that museum collections from Africa are composed largely of the spoils of colonial pillage. Thus the Africa we normally encounter in museums—the Africa of masks and ritual objects displayed on walls and in glass cases—is a fetishized Africa of colonial nostalgia. The objective of this exhibit is to offer images of <i>Other Africas</i>, perspectives that lead us away from the desolate and romanticized Africa of the Western imagination toward those places where African modernities are emerging. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42530 Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:20:39 -0800 africa colionalism collections fetishization masks museums theother tpoh.org