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Spirited encounters : American Indians protest museum policies and practices / Karen Coody Cooper.
Penn Museum Library E76.85 .C66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Karen Coody.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Museums.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Material culture.
- Indians of North America--Politics and government.
- Museums--Management--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Museums.
- Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Museum exhibits.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--United States.
- Human remains (Archaeology).
- Cultural property--Repatriation--United States.
- Cultural property.
- Cultural property--Repatriation.
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation.
- Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Museums--Management.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- During the twentieth century, dozens of protests-large and small-occurred across North America as American Indians asserted their anger and displayed their disappointment regarding traditional museum behaviors. In response, due to public embarrassment and awakening sensitivities, museums began to change their methods and laws were enacted in support of American Indian requests for change. The result is that American museums have revised their long-held practices. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums, looks at their development to the present, examines how museums collect Native materials, and explores protest as a fully American process of addressing grievances. Now that museums and American Indians are working together in the processes of repatriation, this book can help each side understand the other more fully.
- Contents:
- Introduction: American Indians, museums, and protest
- Politics and sponsorship of The spirit sings
- Display of sacred objects
- Display of human remains
- Art confined to a reservation of its own
- Demands for return of material objects
- Demands for return of human remains
- No celebration for Columbus
- Thanksgiving mourned
- The Custer chronicles
- Native cultural sites
- Transforming museums
- Conclusion: Achievements gained by protests.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780759110885
- 0759110883
- 9780759110892
- 0759110891
- OCLC:
- 164570543
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