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Author : Patricia Pierce Erikson
Release : 1996
Genre : Indians of North America
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Book Synopsis Encounters in the Nation's Attic by : Patricia Pierce Erikson
Download or read book Encounters in the Nation's Attic written by Patricia Pierce Erikson. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Coody Cooper
Release : 2008
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 892/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spirited Encounters by : Karen Coody Cooper
Download or read book Spirited Encounters written by Karen Coody Cooper. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. In response, museums began to change their methods. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understan...
Author : Michael Jeffords
Release : 2017-06-30
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 672/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Curious Encounters with the Natural World by : Michael Jeffords
Download or read book Curious Encounters with the Natural World written by Michael Jeffords. This book was released on 2017-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe--and explored their neighborhood--collecting images of the natural world. This book opens their personal cabinet of curiosities to tell the stories of the pair's most unusual encounters. From the "necking" battles of mate-hungry giraffes to the breathtaking beauty of millions of monarch butterflies at rest, Jeffords and Post share 200 stunning photographs and their own insightful essays to guide readers on a spectacular journey. Their training as entomologists offers unique perspectives on surprise stag beetle swarms and spider hunting habits. Their photographic eye, honed by decades of observation, finds expression in once-in-a-lifetime images. The result is an eyewitness collection of startling and unusual phenomena that illuminates the diverse life inhabiting our planet.
Author : Amy Lonetree
Release : 2012-11-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Decolonizing Museums by : Amy Lonetree
Download or read book Decolonizing Museums written by Amy Lonetree. This book was released on 2012-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how museums can honor an Indigenous worldview and way of knowing, challenge stereotypical representations, and speak the hard truths of colonization within exhibition spaces to address the persistent legacies of historical unresolved grief in Native communities. Lonetree focuses on the representation of Native Americans in exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Mille Lacs Indian Museum in Minnesota, and the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways in Michigan. Drawing on her experiences as an Indigenous scholar and museum professional, Lonetree analyzes exhibition texts and images, records of exhibition development, and interviews with staff members. She addresses historical and contemporary museum practices and charts possible paths for the future curation and presentation of Native lifeways.
Author : Marie Mauzä
Release : 2004-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Coming to Shore by : Marie Mauzä
Download or read book Coming to Shore written by Marie Mauzä. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Coast of North America was home to dozens of Native peoples at the time of its first contact with Europeans. The rich artistic, ceremonial, and oral traditions of these peoples and their preservation of cultural practices have made this region especially attractive for anthropological study. Coming to Shore provides a historical overview of the ethnology and ethnohistory of this region, with special attention given to contemporary, theoretically informed studies of communities and issues. The first book to explore the role of the Northwest Coast in three distinct national traditions of anthropology- American, Canadian, and French-Coming to Shore gives particular consideration to the importance of Claude Levi-Strauss and structuralism, as well as more recent social theory in the context of Northwest Coast anthropology. In addition contributors explore the blurring boundaries between theoretical and applied anthropology as well as contemporary issues such as land claims, criminal justice, environmentalism, economic development, and museum display. The contribution of Frederica de Laguna provides a historical background to the enterprise of Northwest Coast anthropology, as do the contributions of Claude Levi-Strauss and Marie Mauze. Marie Mauze is a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her books include Present Is Past: Some Uses of Tradition in Native Societies. Michael E. Harkin is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and the editor of Reassessing Revitalization Movements: Perspectives from North America and the Pacific Islands (Nebraska 2004). Sergei Kan is a professor of anthropology and Native American studies at Dartmouth College and author of Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries.
