Colonial Legacy in African Museology
The Case of the Ghana National Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2277871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arianna Fogelman (Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-27 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-8339 • E-ISSN: 1548-1379 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1379.2008.00002.x |
| OpenAlex | W2061715529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 29 |
African museums were largely founded during the colonial era to house artifacts amassed by imperial agents whose contemporaneous understandings of race, evolution and culture led them to believe local populations were "backward" or otherwise "primitive." Today in the hands of independent governments, scholars frequently cite "colonial legacy" to explain these institutions' continued irrelevance to the local communities they purport to serve. Recent efforts to "localize" African museums have proceeded without a critical analysis of the "colonial legacy" concept, which both denies local agency and cultural malleability in the museum concept, as demonstrated with the case of the Ghana National Museum
Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · National museum · Political science · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Museology
Muzealizacja a dekolonizacja dziedzictwa afrykańskiego
Recreating Pre-colonial Forts and Castles
Current Perspectives in the Archaeology of Ghana
How Our Heritage is Looted”
Decolonising the Museum
From hopelessness to hope
The "saint" of Livingstonia
Toward a Museum Culture in Ghana
Of substances, palaces, and museums
Africa works
Primitive art in civilized places
The Musaeum of Alexandria and the Formation of the Museum in Eighteenth-Century France
The Musaeum of Alexandria and the Formation of the Muséum in Eighteenth-Century France
Culture and Public Action
Unpacking Culture
Tensions of Empire
Missionaries and Colonialism in a Postcolonial Museum
Ghana's Vanishing Past
Nation-building, collecting and the politics of display
Conventional Museums and the Quest for Relevance in Africa
Musée Dapper
Museums and the Community in West Africa
Anthropology and Government in Ghana
Making the Town
Cultural resource management and Africanist archaeology
Local Culture in the National Arena
The Cultural Dimensions of Development in Africa
Symbols of Triumph
Royal Treasury, Historic House, or Just a Museum? Transforming Manhyia Palace, Ghana, into a Site of Cultural Tourism
Museums as a Tool for Nationalism in Africa
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |