1st Edition
Making Representations Museums in the Post-Colonial Era
By Moira G. Simpson
Copyright 1997
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Responses to controversial exhibitions in recent years have demonstrated the dissatisfaction felt by many indigenous peoples and ethnic groups at the ways in which the western museum traditionally represented their cultures and excluded them from the process of interpretation and display. Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and other indigenous peoples are now demanding that human remains,... Read more
Part 1: Cultural reflections; 1: History revisited; 2: The controversy continues; 3: Voices of authorship; Part 2: The ‘new' museum paradigm; 4: Remembering the homeland; 5: From treasure house to museum … and back; 6: Native American museums and cultural centres; Part 3: Human remains and cultural property; 7: Bones of contention: Human remains in museum collections; 8: Cultural artefacts: A question of ownership; 9: The repatriation debate: An international issue
Biography
Moira G. Simpson
'Making Representations is a beautifully double-edged title. It expresses the activity of museums as they display and interpret cultures, but also voices the growing demands of the peoples represented to be involved in the way their culture is presented in museums.' - Museums Journal
'The book is well presented and illustrated. This is a genuinely helpful contribution to museum thinking and should become a standard museum studies text.' - Gaynor Kavanagh, University of Leicester
