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Notice catalographique « First Nations, museums, narrations : stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian prairies »

Titre
First Nations, museums, narrations : stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian prairies
Auteur ou éditeur
Brown, Alison K. (Alison Kay), 1971-
Lieu de publication
Vancouver
Maison d'édition
UBC Press
Date de publication
2014
Collation
xx, 305 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Résumé
When the Franklin Motor Expedition set out across the Canadian Prairies to gather First Nations artifacts, it was with the assumption that they were collecting mementos of dying cultures. As brutal assimilation policies threatened to decimate First Nations cultures across Canada, an extensive program of ethnographic salvage was in place. Despite having only three members, the expedition amassed hundreds of items, which now comprise the largest single collection of materials from Prairie First Nations held in a British museum. In the past two decades, the relationship between Canadian museums and First Nations has undergone a realignment of power and this shift is now beginning to transform curatorial practices at British museums. In this book, Alison K. Brown looks at the Franklin Motor Expedition from multiple perspectives, consulting descendants of the collectors and members of the affected First Nations and reviewing expedition images and the artifacts themselves. In doing so, she explores not only the intellectual and political contexts within which the collection was made but also the complex relationships between museums, anthropologists, and First Nations.
Notes
Community Contexts: Reserve Life in the 1920s -- Collecting on the Prairies: "A Splendid Collecting Field" -- Collecting in Action: The Franklin Motor Expedition -- Representing Collecting: Images and Narratives -- Reflecting on the Franklin Motor Expedition: First Nations Perspectives -- Curating the Rymill Collection: The Prairies on Display -- Building Relationships: British Museums and First Nations.
Langue
English = Anglais
Sujet
  • Indigenous peoples - Culture - North America
  • Ethnological expeditions - Canada, Western - History
  • Museums and indigenous peoples - History
  • Reconciliation
  • Autochtones - Culture - Amérique du Nord
  • Expéditions ethnologiques - Canada (Ouest) - Histoire
  • Musées et autochtones - Histoire
  • Réconciliation
ISBN/ISSN
9780774827263
Pays
Canada
Type de document
Monograph = Monographie
Localisation
AM 21.A2 B76 2014
Clé
19344
Collection
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