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The changing presentation of the American Indian : museums and native cultures.
- Title
- The changing presentation of the American Indian : museums and native cultures.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2000.
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- Additional Authors
- National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
- Description
- 118 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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.
- 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
- Indians > Museums > Congresses
- Indians > Public opinion > Congresses
- Indians > Public opinion
- Indians > Museums
- Indians in popular culture
- Indians of North America > Museums
- Indians of North America > Public opinion
- Intercultural communication
- Museum techniques
- Indianer
- Museumskunde
- Präsentation
- Kongress
- Indianen
- Representatie (algemeen)
- Musea
- Indiens > Culture matérielle > Congrès. > Amérique du Nord
- Muséologie > Amérique du Nord
- Indiens dans la culture populaire > Congrès
- Indiens > Amérique du Nord > Opinion publique > Congrès
- Amérindien
- Communication interculturelle
- Culture amérindienne
- Culture populaire
- Culture matérielle
- Musée
- Muséologie
- Opinion publique
- Iwi taketake
- USA
- Indianer
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Konferenzschrift – 1995 – New York, NY.
- Congresses.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- 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 (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0295977817
- 9780295977812
- 0295984597
- 9780295984599
- LCCN
- 99037626
- OCLC
- ocm41641415
- 41641415
- SCSB-1123075
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library