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...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Communication
Main Author: McLoughlin, Moira
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1993
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spelling crunivtoronpr:10.22230/cjc.1993v18n3a761 2023-12-31T10:06:54+01:00 Of Boundaries and Borders: First Nations’ History in Museums McLoughlin, Moira 1993 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 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Journal of Communication volume 18, issue 3 ISSN 0705-3657 1499-6642 Communication journal-article 1993 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.1993v18n3a761 2023-12-01T08:18:06Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Journal of Communication 18 3
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