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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives - Sleeper-Smith, Susan (Editor)
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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 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizing how exhibitions must ...

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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives 2009, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803219489

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