Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives
by Susan Sleeper-Smith
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages374 pages
ISBN
9780803219489
Publisher (Year)
University of Nebraska Press, 2009
Description
This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist c...This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.