Contested Representations: Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa' - African Art Exhibition Analysis & Cultural Critique for Museum Studies & Anthropology Research" （如果原始标题是中文，假设为："有争议的再现：重访'走进非洲之心'"） 优化后的英文标题: "Contested Representations: Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa' - African Cultural Exhibition Analysis & Postcolonial Critique for Academic Research & Museum Studies

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The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."