Contesting knowledge  museums and indigenous perspectives /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith 
 - Lincoln :  University of Nebraska Press,  c2009 
 - 1 online resource (362 p.) :  ill., maps 
<br/><br/> Description based on print version record 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Contesting knowledge : museums and indigenous perspectives / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- The legacy of ethnography / Ray Silverman -- Elite ethnography and cultural eradication: confronting the cannibal in early nineteenth-century Brazil / Hal Langfur -- Ethnographic showcases as sites of knowledge production and indigenous resistance / Zine Magubane -- Reinventing George Heye: nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian and its collections / Ann McMullen -- Ethnographic elaborations, indigenous contestations, and the cultural politics of imagining community: a view from the District Six Museum in South Africa / Ciraj Rassool -- Museums and indigenous perspectives on curatorial practice / Jacki Thompson Rand -- A dialogic response to the problematized past : the National Museum of the American Indian / Miranda J. Brady -- West side stories: the blending of voice and representation through a shared curatorial practice / Brenda MacDougall and M. Teresa Carlson -- Huichol histories and territorial claims in two national anthropology museums / Paul Liffman -- The construction of native voice at the National Museum of the American Indian / Jennifer Shannon -- Creation of the tribal museum / Brenda J. Child -- Tsi?niyukwaliho?t[lambda], the Oneida Nation Museum : creating a space for Haudenosaunee kinship and identity / Kristina Ackley -- Reimagining tribal sovereignty through tribal history : museums, libraries, and archives in the Klamath River region / Brian Isaac Daniels -- Responsibilities towards knowledge: the Zuni Museum and reconciling of different knowledge systems / Gwyneira Isaac -- Museums as sites of decolonization : truth telling in national and tribal museums / Amy Lonetree. 
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access : Internet 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780803225114 (electronic bk.) 0803225113 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnological museums and collections<br/>Indians--Museums<br/>Indian museum curators--Attitudes<br/>Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects<br/>Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects<br/>Museums--Collection management