Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives

Book Overview

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. The essays in section 1 consider ethnography's influence on how Europeans represent colonized peoples. Section...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803219482
• ISBN13: 9780803219489
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"