First Nations, Museums, Narrations
Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies
Seiten
2015
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2726-3 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-2726-3 (ISBN)
The story of the Franklin Motor Expedition that collected First Nations artifacts on the Prairies in 1929 as well as a larger study of the relationships between museums and the indigenous peoples whose heritage items they house.
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.
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.
Alison K. Brown is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
A Note on Terminology
Introduction
1 Community Contexts: Reserve Life in the 1920s
2 Collecting on the Prairies: “A Splendid Collecting Field”
3 Collecting in Action: The Franklin Motor Expedition
4 Representing Collecting: Images and Narratives
5 Reflecting on the Franklin Motor Expedition: First Nations Perspectives
6 Curating the Rymill Collection: The Prairies on Display
7 Building Relationships: British Museums and First Nations
Notes
References
Index
Zusatzinfo | 30 b&w photos, 1 map, 4 tables |
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Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 480 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-2726-2 / 0774827262 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-2726-3 / 9780774827263 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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