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Museum Pieces : Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (393 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773587465
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Museum PiecesDDC classification:
  • 069.08997071
LOC classification:
  • E76.85 .P455 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names and Terms -- A Preface - by Way of an Introduction -- PART ONE: CONFRO NTATION AND CONTESTATION -- Undoing the Settler Museum: Showing Off and Showing Up -- 1 "Arrow of Truth": The Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 with Sherry Brydon -- 2 Moment of Truth: The Spirit Sings asCritical Event and the Exhibition Inside It -- 3 APEC at the Museum of Anthropology:The Politics of Site and the Poetics of Sight Bite -- PART TWO: RE-DISCIPLINING THE MUSEUM -- Exclusions and Inclusions: Authenticity, Sacrality, and Possession -- 4 How Museums Marginalize:Naming Domains of Inclusion and Exclusion -- 5 Fielding Culture: Dialogues between Art History and Anthropology -- 6 Disappearing Acts: Traditions ofExposure, Traditions of Enclosure,and the Sacrality of Onkwehonwe Medicine Masks -- 7 The Global Travels of a Mi'kmaq Coat:Colonial Legacies, Repatriation, and the New Cosmopolitanism -- PART THREE: WOR KING IT OUT -- Indigenizing Exhibitions: Experiments and Practices -- 8 Making Space: First Nations Artists, theNational Museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- 9 Cancelling White Noise:Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- 10 Threads of the Land at theCanadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- 11 Toward a Dialogic Paradigm:New Models of Collaborative Curatorial Practice -- 12 Inside-Out and Outside-In:Re-presenting Native North America atthe Canadian Museum of Civilization andthe National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004) -- PART FOUR: THE SECOND MUSEUM AGE -- Working with Hybridity -- 13 From Harmony to Antiphony:The Indigenous Presence in a (Future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- 14 Modes of Inclusion: Indigenous Art atthe National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- 15 The Digital (R)Evolution of Museum-Based Research.
16 "Learning to Feed off Controversies": Meeting the Challenges of Translation and Recovery in Canadian Museums -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both difference and inclusivity.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names and Terms -- A Preface - by Way of an Introduction -- PART ONE: CONFRO NTATION AND CONTESTATION -- Undoing the Settler Museum: Showing Off and Showing Up -- 1 "Arrow of Truth": The Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 with Sherry Brydon -- 2 Moment of Truth: The Spirit Sings asCritical Event and the Exhibition Inside It -- 3 APEC at the Museum of Anthropology:The Politics of Site and the Poetics of Sight Bite -- PART TWO: RE-DISCIPLINING THE MUSEUM -- Exclusions and Inclusions: Authenticity, Sacrality, and Possession -- 4 How Museums Marginalize:Naming Domains of Inclusion and Exclusion -- 5 Fielding Culture: Dialogues between Art History and Anthropology -- 6 Disappearing Acts: Traditions ofExposure, Traditions of Enclosure,and the Sacrality of Onkwehonwe Medicine Masks -- 7 The Global Travels of a Mi'kmaq Coat:Colonial Legacies, Repatriation, and the New Cosmopolitanism -- PART THREE: WOR KING IT OUT -- Indigenizing Exhibitions: Experiments and Practices -- 8 Making Space: First Nations Artists, theNational Museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- 9 Cancelling White Noise:Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- 10 Threads of the Land at theCanadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- 11 Toward a Dialogic Paradigm:New Models of Collaborative Curatorial Practice -- 12 Inside-Out and Outside-In:Re-presenting Native North America atthe Canadian Museum of Civilization andthe National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004) -- PART FOUR: THE SECOND MUSEUM AGE -- Working with Hybridity -- 13 From Harmony to Antiphony:The Indigenous Presence in a (Future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- 14 Modes of Inclusion: Indigenous Art atthe National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- 15 The Digital (R)Evolution of Museum-Based Research.

16 "Learning to Feed off Controversies": Meeting the Challenges of Translation and Recovery in Canadian Museums -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both difference and inclusivity.

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