Taxidermic Signs : Reconstructing Aboriginality / Pauline Wakeham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakeham, Pauline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

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, Kwa¨da¯y da¨n ts'i´nchhi, and the reinvention of "race.".

Notes:

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