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Museums and the Representation of Native Canadians: Negotiating the Borders of Culture

Museums and the Representation of Native Canadians: Negotiating the Borders of Culture

McLoughlin, Moira

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Series: Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Canadian HistoryNative American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1138864560
ISBN13: 9781138864566
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 23 2015
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
If we were to think about museums as three dimensional maps-as spaces to be divided, defended, and privileged-what would they tell us about the place of Native Canadians within the larger nation? Utilizing a combination of exhibit analysis and interviews, this book explores how Canadian history, anthropology, and art museums have situated Native Canadian history and culture within a larger narrative of nationhood. Until very recently, these museums have, with few exceptions, perpetuated the continued isolation of Native Canadians on the Other side of carefully demarcated boundaries of time, space, and culture. Despite a living and highly politicized presence outside their walls, inside these museums Native Canadians have remained fixed and isolated in time and space. This book discusses how this particular image of Native Canadians has been translated into the numerous dichotomies and borders of the museum; between modern and traditional, past and present, myth and science, progress and stasis, active and passive, and, ultimately, us and them.

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