Museum pieces [electronic resource] : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7.
Main Author: Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-
Language:English
Published: Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Series:McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7.
Subjects:
Museums > Social aspects > Canada.
Museums and Indians > Canada.
Museums > Political aspects > Canada.
Cultural property > Canada.
Museum exhibits > Canada.
Canada > Cultural policy.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Indigenization of Canadian museums
Museum Pieces : Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up
  • "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon
  • Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it
  • APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite.
  • Pt. 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession
  • How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion
  • Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology
  • Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks
  • Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism.
  • Pt. 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices
  • Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992)
  • Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994)
  • Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995)
  • Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice
  • Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004)
  • Pt. 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity
  • From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada
  • Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research
  • "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums.