xvi, 376 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm
Other Title:
Indigenization of Canadian museums
Notes:
Canadiana Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Pt. 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite Pt. 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism Pt. 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995) Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004) Pt. 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums
