Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums Volume 6

by Ruth B. Phillips

Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773539069
• ISBN13: 9780773539068
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.9"