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The changing presentation of the American Indian : museums and native cultures. Cover Image Book Book

The changing presentation of the American Indian : museums and native cultures

Summary: This study 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 in the field.

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  • ISBN: 0295977817 (Univ. of Wash. Press : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780295977812 (Univ. of Wash. Press : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    118 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2000.

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General Note:
Based on papers presented at a symposium called The changing presentation of the American Indian, held Oct. 8, 1995, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, New York.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Indians of North America Museums Congresses
Intercultural communication Congresses
Museum techniques Congresses
Indians in popular culture Congresses
Indians of North America Public opinion Congresses

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library E 76.85 .C43 2000 262471 Stacks Available -
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