The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures
by National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution
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Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1999. 1st edition. hardcover. FINE. As new -gift quality. Appears unread. 118 indexed pages.9.5x6.25x0.5"" Brings together six museum professionals to examine the ways in which American Indians and their cultures have been represented by museums in North America and to discuss the new directions which museums are taking. Contains: A new idea of ourselves: the changing presentation of the American Indian / W. Richard West-- Presenting the American Indian: from Europe to America / Evan M. Maurer --""Our"" Indians: the unidimensional Indian in the disembodied local past / James D. Nason -- The poetics of museum representations: tropes of recent American Indian art exhibitions / David W. Penney -- The integration of traditional Indian beliefs into the Museum at Warm Springs / Janice Clements -- Are changing representations of first peoples in Canadian museums and galleries challenging the curatorial prerogative? / Michael M. Ames --Learn about our past to understand our future: the story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe / Jocelyn Wedll
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- Title
- The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures
- Author
- National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0295977817
- ISBN 13
- 9780295977812
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- museum, curator, native American, first nations, first peoples, anthropology
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