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. The essays in section 1 consider ethnography's influence on how Europeans represent colonized peoples. Section...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803219482

ISBN13:9780803219489

Release Date:July 2009

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:374 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Business Business & Investing Cultural Economics Library Management Museum Studies & Museology Native American Studies Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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