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Spirited encounters : American Indians protest museum policies and practices / Karen Coody Cooper.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cooper, Karen Coody
Contributor:
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indians of North America--Museums.
Indians of North America--Politics and government.
Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects.
Museums--Management--Moral and ethical aspects.
Indians of North America--Material culture.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation.
Indians--Material culture.
Indians of North America.
Museums.
Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Museum exhibits.
Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation--United States.
Human remains (Archaeology).
Cultural property--Repatriation.
Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects--Canada.
Indians--Material culture--North America.
Indians.
Cultural property--Repatriation--United States.
Cultural property.
North America.
Canada.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 p.)
Distribution:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2008.
Place of Publication:
Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, ©2008.
Language Note:
English
System Details:
text file
PDF
Summary:
During the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. In response, museums began to change their methods. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums, 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:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
ISBN:
979-82-16-41801-6
9798765187807
0-7591-1354-8
OCLC:
847527006

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