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Author:

Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-

Title:

Museum pieces : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips.

Publisher:

McGill-Queen's University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvi, 376 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Museums and Indians--Canada.
Museums--Social aspects--Canada.
Museums--Political aspects--Canada.
Museum exhibits--Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Muesum 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. -- The 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 Civlization (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 American Indian (2003-2004).
Pt. 4. The 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. -- The digital (r)evolution of museums-based research. -- "Learning to feed off controversies": meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7

ISBN:

0773539069 (pbk.)
9780773539068 (pbk.)
0773539050 (bound)
9780773539051 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)719427532

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)