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Contesting knowledge museums and indigenous perspectives /

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Other Authors: Sleeper-Smith, Susan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Ethnological museums and collections.
Indians > Museums.
Indian museum curators > Attitudes.
Museums > Acquisitions > Moral and ethical aspects.
Museum exhibits > Moral and ethical aspects.
Museums > Collection management.
Racism in museum exhibits.
Indians in popular culture.
Indigenous peoples in popular culture.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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