Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change

Selma Holo

ISBN 10: 1588341879 / ISBN 13: 9781588341877

Published by Smithsonian, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change
• Publisher: Smithsonian
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588341879
• ISBN 13: 9781588341877
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The role of museums in creating national and local cultural and political identities.

This detailed examination focuses on the artists and museums of Oaxaca, Mexico: a city and province celebrated worldwide by tourists, collectors, and art historians for its polished black pottery, colorful carvings of animals, fine textiles, world class museums and galleries, archaeology, and famous contemporary artists. Selma Holo looks in particular at how individuals and groups at national, regional, and local levels use museums to advance a particular view of history and identity. She clearly explains the way Mexico's pre-Columbian past has been represented, who has contested it, who holds the rights to Oaxaca's archaeological treasures, who has the authority to narrate the country's cultural history, who creates new museums and new mythologies about national and local identity, and many other intriguing subjects. 30 b/w illustrations.

About the Author

Selma Holo is director of the University of California's Graduate Museum Studies Program and director of the Fisher Gallery. Author of Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain, she lives in Los Angeles.