Title:
The changing presentation of the American Indian : museums and native cultures.
General Notes:
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., 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.
Originally published in 2000., 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.
Publisher:
National Museum of the American Indian ; University of Washington Press,
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C. : Seattle, WA :
ISBN:
0295977817 (hbk.)
9780295977812 (hbk.)
0295984597 (pbk.)
9780295984599 (pbk.)
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.
Indiens d'Amâerique -- Musâees -- Congrلes.
Communication interculturelle -- Congrلes.
Musâeologie -- Congrلes.
Indiens d'Amâerique dans la culture populaire -- Congrلes.
Indiens d'Amâerique -- Opinion publique -- Congrلes.
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Contents:
A new idea of ourselves: the changing presentation of the American Indian / W. Richard West, Jr. -- 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.
Physical Description:
118 p. : ill., map ;
Publication Date:
2000, reprint 2004.
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