عنوان

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

Number

TL49722

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

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

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ashley V. Miller

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Silverman, Raymond A

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

368

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

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

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History of Art

Body granting the degree

University of Michigan

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

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

Subject Term

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

Alhammadi, Samia Mohammed

Silverman, Raymond A

Subdivision

History of Art

University of Michigan

Call Number

1990248811; 10670366

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[Thesis]

276903

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