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

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.8007 C761C    Check Shelf
Description 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Ethnological museums and collections.
Indigenous peoples -- Museums.
Indian museum curators -- Attitudes.
Local Subject Indian museum curators -- Attitudes.
Subject 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.
Added Author Sleeper-Smith, Susan.
ISBN 9780803219489 paperback alkaline paper
0803219482 paperback alkaline paper
Sudoc No. U5002 T320 -2009 nbdocs
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