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Author : John Alden Mason
Release : 1958
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Book Synopsis George G. Heye, 1874-1957 by : John Alden Mason
Download or read book George G. Heye, 1874-1957 written by John Alden Mason. This book was released on 1958. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Sleeper-Smith
Release : 2009-07-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Contesting Knowledge by : Susan Sleeper-Smith
Download or read book Contesting Knowledge written by Susan Sleeper-Smith. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in section 1 consider ethnography's influence on how Europeans represent colonized peoples. Section 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizing how exhibitions must serve diverse masters rather than solely the curator's own creativity and judgment, a dramatic departure from past museum culture and practice. Section 3 essays consider tribal museums that focus on contesting and critiquing colonial views of American and Canadian history while serving the varied needs of the indigenous communities.
Author : Shepard Krech III
Release : 2014-08-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 by : Shepard Krech III
Download or read book Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 written by Shepard Krech III. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North America that were meant to educate the public about American Indian skills, practices, and beliefs. In Collecting Native America contributors examine the motivations, intentions, and actions of eleven collectors who devoted substantial parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. They describe obsessive hobbyists such as George Heye, who, beginning with the purchase of a lice-ridden shirt, built a collection that—still unsurpassed in richness, diversity, and size—today forms the core of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sheldon Jackson, a Presbyterian missionary in Alaska, collected and displayed artifacts as a means of converting Native peoples to Christianity. Clara Endicott Sears used sometimes invented displays and ceremonies at her Indian Museum near Boston to emphasize Native American spirituality. The contributors chart the collectors' diverse attitudes towards Native peoples, showing how their limited contact with American Indian groups resulted in museums that revealed more about assumptions of the wider society than about the cultures being described.
Author : Amy Lonetree
Release : 2008-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The National Museum of the American Indian by : Amy Lonetree
Download or read book The National Museum of the American Indian written by Amy Lonetree. This book was released on 2008-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples, the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC opened in 2004. It represents both the United States as a singular nation and the myriad indigenous nations within its borders. Constructed with materials closely connected to Native communities across the continent, the museum contains more than 800,000 objects and three permanent galleries and routinely holds workshops and seminar series. This first comprehensive look at the National Museum of the American Indian encompasses a variety of perspectives, including those of Natives and non-Natives, museum employees, and outside scholars across disciplines such as cultural studies and criticism, art history, history, museum studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Native American studies. The contributors engage in critical dialogues about key aspects of the museum?s origin, exhibits, significance, and the relationship between Native Americans and other related museums.
Author : Library of Congress
Release : 1972
Genre : Catalogs, Union
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Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
