First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies - Couverture rigide

Brown, Alison K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0774827254 ISBN 13 : 9780774827256

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2014

Synopsis

When the Franklin Motor Expedition set out across the Canadian Prairies to collect First Nations artifacts, brutal assimilation policies threatened to decimate these cultures and extensive programs of ethnographic salvage were in place. Despite having only three members, the expedition amassed the largest single collection of Prairie heritage items currently held in a British museum.

In this book, Alison K. Brown draws together the multiple narratives that make up this encounter, consulting descendants of the collectors and members of the affected First Nations and reviewing both expedition images and the artifacts themselves. In doing so, she explores the context within which the collection was made as well as the complex relationships between museums, anthropologists, and First Nations.

Accessibly written and vigorously researched, First Nations, Museums, Narrations raises timely questions about the role of collections in the twenty-first century and considers the way forward for indigenous peoples and the museums that house their cultural treasures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alison K. Brown is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774827254
• ISBN 13: 9780774827256
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible