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Contesting knowledge : museums and indigenous perspectives

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  • Contributor: Sleeper-Smith, Susan; Child, Brenda J.
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    2013
    Summary:

    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.

    Contents:

    Contesting knowledge : museums and indigenous perspectives / Susan Sleeper-Smith
    The legacy of ethnography / Ray Silverman
    Elite ethnography and cultural eradication: confronting the cannibal in early nineteenth-century Brazil / Hal Langfur
    Ethnographic showcases as sites of knowledge production and indigenous resistance / Zine Magubane
    Reinventing George Heye: nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian and its collections / Ann McMullen
    Ethnographic elaborations, indigenous contestations, and the cultural politics of imagining community: a view from the District Six Museum in South Africa / Ciraj Rassool
    Museums and indigenous perspectives on curatorial practice / Jacki Thompson Rand
    A dialogic response to the problematized past : the National Museum of the American Indian / Miranda J. Brady
    West side stories: the blending of voice and representation through a shared curatorial practice / Brenda MacDougall and M. Teresa Carlson
    Huichol histories and territorial claims in two national anthropology museums / Paul Liffman
    The construction of native voice at the National Museum of the American Indian / Jennifer Shannon
    Creation of the tribal museum / Brenda J. Child
    Tsi?niyukwaliho?t[lambda], the Oneida Nation Museum : creating a space for Haudenosaunee kinship and identity / Kristina Ackley
    Reimagining tribal sovereignty through tribal history : museums, libraries, and archives in the Klamath River region / Brian Isaac Daniels
    Responsibilities towards knowledge: the Zuni Museum and reconciling of different knowledge systems / Gwyneira Isaac
    Museums as sites of decolonization : truth telling in national and tribal museums / Amy Lonetree

    Genre:
    Indigenous materials, Essays, History and geography
    Subject(s): Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects | Ethnological museums and collections | Indigenous peoples | Indigenous museum curators | Museum exhibits | Indigenous peoples in popular culture | Racism in museum exhibits | Museums--collection management
    Original Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press
    Language(s): English