On Display New Essays In Cultural Studies

A group of New Zealand's leading cultural studies scholars provide their perspectives on the politics of display in this thought-provoking collection of essays. Philip Armstrong, Roger Blackley, Kyla McFarlane, Annie Potts, and Paul Williams, among others, showcase their thinking about cultural activitieslooking and showing, viewing and arrangingthat are deeply embedded in ideology. From the antique plaster casts held by Auckland Museum to the wild foods on New Zealand's West Coast, the essays pursue a variety of trajectories on how New Zealanders display themselves and what they profess and contest in their collective representations.Smith, Anna is the author of 'On Display New Essays In Cultural Studies' with ISBN 9780864734549 and ISBN 0864734549.