Contesting knowledge museums and indigenous perspectives /

• Other Authors: Sleeper-Smith, Susan.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Ethnological museums and collections.; Indians > Museums.; Indian museum curators > Attitudes.; Museums > Acquisitions > Moral and ethical aspects.; Museum exhibits > Moral and ethical aspects.; Museums > Collection management.; Racism in museum exhibits.; Indians in popular culture.; Indigenous peoples in popular culture.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary; ebrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.) : ill., maps.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780803225114 (electronic bk.); 0803225113 (electronic bk.); 9780803219489 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0803219482 (pbk. : alk. paper)

This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.