عنوان

Making Moroccan 'Heritage': Art, Identity, and Historical Memory in the Early French Protectorate of Morocco (ca. 1912 - 1931)

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انگلیسی

Making Moroccan 'Heritage': Art, Identity, and Historical Memory in the Early French Protectorate of Morocco (ca. 1912 - 1931)

[Thesis]

Ashley V. Miller

Silverman, Raymond A

University of Michigan

2017

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Committee members: Gruber, Christiane J.; Hannoosh, Michele A.; Siegfried, Susan L.; Silverman, Raymond A.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-36620-4

Ph.D.

History of Art

University of Michigan

2017

This dissertation argues that transnational negotiations over the meaning and content of Morocco's cultural heritage and identity during World War I and the interwar period (ca. 1912 - 1931) were critical to the French Protectorate's cultural campaign in Morocco. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the early French Protectorate regime, led by Resident-General Hubert Lyautey from 1912 until 1925, established one of the earliest and most comprehensive programs for arts and heritage management in Africa and, arguably, the world; the legacy of this colonial project is still reflected in notions and practices of "heritage" in Morocco and France today. Existing literature depicts the Protectorate's exceptional attention to preserving Morocco's "traditional" architecture, arts, neighborhoods, and cultural practices as a colonial campaign pursued in the service of social control, economic exploitation, and political dominance. I diverge from this current scholarship by examining the dynamic relationship between the colonial politics of cultural representation within Morocco and the intellectual, commercial, and political stakes of representing a cultural image of Morocco on the international stage. In this way, I broaden our understanding of the early-twentieth-century cultural relationship between France and Morocco beyond the realm of colonial politics to consider its formative role in articulating twentieth-century notions of "art," "heritage," and "identity" on both sides of the Mediterranean.

Art history; North African Studies

Communication and the arts;Social sciences;Crafts;French colonialism;Heritage studies;Morocco;Visual culture

Alhammadi, Samia Mohammed

Silverman, Raymond A

History of Art

University of Michigan

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