Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
Susan Sleeper-Smith
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Description for Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
Paperback. An interdisciplinary and international collection of essays that illuminates the importance and effects of indigenous perspectives for museums. It challenges and complicates the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead. Editor(s): Sleeper-Smith, Susan. Num Pages: 374 pages, 14 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: GM; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
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 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizing how exhibitions must serve diverse masters rather than solely the curator’s own creativity and judgment, a dramatic departure from past museum culture and practice. Section 3 essays consider tribal museums that focus on contesting and critiquing ... Read more
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 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizing how exhibitions must serve diverse masters rather than solely the curator’s own creativity and judgment, a dramatic departure from past museum culture and practice. Section 3 essays consider tribal museums that focus on contesting and critiquing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803219489
SKU
V9780803219489
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About Susan Sleeper-Smith
Susan Sleeper-Smith is a professor of history at Michigan State University. She is the author of Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes and the coeditor of New Faces of the Fur Trade: Selected Proceedings of the Seventh North American Fur Trade Conference. Contributors: Kristina Ackley, Miranda J. Brady, M. Teresa Carlson, Brenda J. ... Read more
Reviews for Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
"Regardless of one's ethnicity, affiliation or experience, museum professionals and public historians alike, especially those with little or no experience working with indigenous communities or other stakeholder audiences, will find this volume concerning an emerging aspect of museum practice valuable and worth exploring."—Kym S. Rice, Western American Literature "Contesting Knowledge will likely remain relevant for many years as the issues ... Read more