Inherited “Ancestors’ Collections” of a Devoted Curator: The Museum of African Heritage in Georgetown, Guyana
This essay traces the development of the Museum of African Heritage (MAH) in Guyana, which opened in 1994. The vision for the Museum, however, emerged over a decade earlier within contexts of decolonial cultural nationalist movements in the circum-Caribbean and African diasporic world at large. Expl...
Main Author: | Jeremy Jacob Peretz |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Stockholm University Press
2018-06-01
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Series: | Karib |
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Online Access: | https://www.karib.no/articles/39 |
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