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Author:

Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-

Title:

Taxidermic signs : reconstructing aboriginality / Pauline Wakeham.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

viii, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Museums
Indians of North America--Exhibitions.--Exhibitions.
Indians of North America--Exhibitions.--Exhibitions.
Museum techniques--North America.
Taxidermy--North America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-246) and index.

Contents:

Reading the Banff Park Museum : time, affect, and the production of frontier nostalgia -- Celluloid salvage : Edward S. Curtis's experiments with photography and film -- Salvaging sound at last sight : Marius Barbeau and the anthropological rescue of Nass River Indians -- Repatriation's remainders : Kennewick man, Kw©Þd♯y d©Þn ts'©Ưnchhi, and the reinvention of "race".

ISBN:

0816650551 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816650552 (pb : alk. paper)
0816650543 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816650545 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)191090251

LCCN:

2008000931

Locations:

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