Of Boundaries and Borders: First Nations’ History in Museums
This paper suggests that traditional history museums can be approached as maps that to orient their users to linear, culturally specific narratives of time and space. As an alternative, the paper proposes that we consider museum as borderlands: spaces of coexistence, negotiation, and transformation...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Communication |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1993
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.22230/cjc.1993v18n3a761 http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/761/667 https://cjc.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.22230/cjc.1993v18n3a761 |
| Summary: | This paper suggests that traditional history museums can be approached as maps that to orient their users to linear, culturally specific narratives of time and space. As an alternative, the paper proposes that we consider museum as borderlands: spaces of coexistence, negotiation, and transformation which do not assume given centres of power. |
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