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

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

Publication Info. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages :) : illustrations (some color), portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; [7]
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Bibliography 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 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.
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Subject Museum exhibits -- Canada.
Museum exhibits.
Canada.
Museums and Indians -- Canada.
Museums and Indians.
Museums -- Political aspects -- Canada.
Museums -- Political aspects.
Museums.
Museums -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Museums -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945- Museum pieces. Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011 9780773539051 (DLC) 2012376158 (OCoLC)719427532
ISBN 9780773587465 (electronic book)
0773587462 (electronic book)
0773539050 (bound)
0773539069 (paperback)
9780773539051 (bound)
9780773539068 (paperback)