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Taxidermic signs : reconstructing aboriginality / Pauline Wakeham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Museums.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Material culture--Exhibitions.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
- Museum techniques--North America.
- Museum techniques.
- Taxidermy--North America.
- Taxidermy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wakeham theorizes taxidermy as a sign system that conflates "animality" and "aboriginality" within colonial narratives of extinction.
- Contents:
- Reading the Banff Park Museum : time, affect, and the production of frontier nostalgia
- Celluloid salvage : Edward S. Curtis's experiments with photography and film
- Salvaging sound at last sight : Marius Barbeau and the anthropological rescue of Nass River Indians
- Repatriation's remainders : Kennewick man, Kwaday dan ts'inchhi, and the reinvention of "race".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5661-4
- OCLC:
- 476167524
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