Contesting knowledge : museums and indigenous perspectives / edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith.

Other author Sleeper-Smith, Susan.
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Description362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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.
Racism against indigenous peoples.
Indians in popular culture.
Indigenous peoples in popular culture.

Contents Ethnography and the cultural practices of museums. The legacy of ethnography / Ray Silverman ; Elite ethnography and cultural eradication: confronting the cannibal in early nineteenth-century Brazil / Hal Langfur ; Ethnographic showcases at 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 -- Curatorial practices: voices, values, languages, and traditions. 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 -- Tribal museums and the heterogeneity of the nation-state. Creation of the tribal museum / Brenda J. Child ; Tsi[dotless question makr]niyukwaliho[dotless question mark]t[upside down "v"], 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 toward knowledge: the Zuni Museum and the reconciling of different knowledge systems / Gwyneira Isaac ; Museums as sites of decolonization: truth telling in national and tribal museums / Amy Lonetree.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009002209
ISBN9780803219489 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0803219482 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other class# U5002 T320 -2009

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Joyner General Stacks GN35 .C64 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold