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050	0	0	_aQH70.M42 _bA28 2014
082	0	4	_a069.509595 _223
100	0		_aAbu Talib Ahmad, _eauthor. _9311381
245	1	0	_aMuseums, history, and culture in Malaysia / _cAbu Talib Ahmad.
264		1	_aSingapore : _bNUS Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_axiii, 328 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tPre-Melaka Period: Contested History, Contested Heritage -- _g2. _tMekaka History and Heritage in Museums -- _g3. _tMuseums and the Japanese Occupation -- _g4. _tMemorials and Towering Personalities in Malaysian History -- _g5. _tProvincial Museums and Culture.
520			_a"During the half century following Malaysian independence in 1957, the country's National Museum underwent a transformation that involved a shift from serving as a repository for displays of mounted butterflies and stuffed animals and accounts of the colonial experience to an overarching national narrative focused on culture and history. These topics are sensitive and highly disputed in Malaysia, and many of the country's museums contest the narrative that underlies displays in the National Museum, offering alternative treatments of subjects such as Malaysia's pre-Islamic past, the history and heritage of the Melaka sultanate, memories of the Japanese Occupation, national cultural policy, and cultural differences between the Federation's constituent states. In Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia, Abu Talib Ahmad examines museum displays throughout the country, and uses textual analysis of museum publications along with interviews with serving and retired museum officers to evaluate changing approaches to exhibits and the tensions that they express, or sometimes create. In addition to the National Museum, he considers museums and memorials in Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Kelantan and Terengganu, as well as memorials dedicated to national heroes (such as former Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, and film and recording artist P. Ramlee). The book offers rich and fascinating insights into differing versions of the country's character and historical experience, and efforts to reconcile these sometimes disparate accounts."--Publisher's website.
546			_aIn English.
610	2	0	_aMuzium Negara (Malaysia) _9474411
650		0	_aMuseum exhibits _zMalaysia _9666320
650		0	_aNational museums _zMalaysia _9666329
651		0	_aMalaysia _xCivilization _9502186
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