Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives

Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
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This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.
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The essays in section 1 consider ethnographyâ‚¬s influence on how Europeans represent colonized peoples. Section 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizing how exhibitions must serve diverse masters rather than solely the curatorâ‚¬s own creativity and judgment, a dramatic departure from past museum culture and practice. Section 3 essays consider tribal museums that focus on contesting and critiquing colonial views of American and Canadian history while serving the varied needs of the indigenous communities.
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The institutions examined in these pages range broadly from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC; the Oneida Nation Museum in Oneida, Wisconsin; tribal museums in the Klamath River region in California; the tribal museum in Zuni, New Mexico; the Museum of the American Indian in New York City; and the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa.
Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 14 photos, 3 maps
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780803219489
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer	University of Nebraska Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	14 photos, 3 maps
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780803219489
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives

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