Museum pieces toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips.
| Author/creator | Phillips, Ruth B., 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y] : McGill-Queen's University Press, |
| Description | xvi, 376 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Indigenization of Canadian museums |
| Series | McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7 McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7. ^A1414162 |
| Contents | Pt. 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up -- "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon -- Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it -- APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite. |
| Contents | Pt. 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession -- How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion -- Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology -- Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks -- Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism. |
| Contents | Pt. 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices -- Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice -- Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004) |
| Contents | Pt. 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity -- From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research -- "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012376159 |
| ISBN | 9780773539051 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0773539050 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780773539068 (paper) |
| ISBN | 0773539069 (paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |