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Postcolonial critics have, over the last few decades, shaken the foundations upon which the museum world has rested. Museums, in turn, have had to deal with the political backlash from First Nations and their supporters for possessing stolen objects, essentializing Aboriginal identities while exclud...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/bcs.v0i165.317 2023-08-27T04:09:26+02:00 Contested Spaces, Shared Places: The Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Aboriginal Peoples, and Postcolonial Criticism ... Clapperton, Jonathan Alex 2010 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i165.317 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/317 en eng BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i165 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i165.317.g596 Text article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2010 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i165.31710.14288/bcs.v0i16510.14288/bcs.v0i165.317.g596 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z Postcolonial critics have, over the last few decades, shaken the foundations upon which the museum world has rested. Museums, in turn, have had to deal with the political backlash from First Nations and their supporters for possessing stolen objects, essentializing Aboriginal identities while excluding Native voices from exhibit-creation process, and being complicit in state-sponsored colonialism. However, Aboriginal communities and individuals have never been entirely absent from museums. They have had a powerful and increasingly prominent presence, with many Natives taking pride in and believing in the usefulness of museum mandates. This essay uses the relationship between the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia and First Nations, in particular the Stó:lō, to demonstrate these inconsistencies. In order to address the tension between postcolonial theory and historical practice, this essay contends that while criticisms of museums are indeed justified and do apply to MOA, many ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 165: Spring 2010 ... Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Postcolonial critics have, over the last few decades, shaken the foundations upon which the museum world has rested. Museums, in turn, have had to deal with the political backlash from First Nations and their supporters for possessing stolen objects, essentializing Aboriginal identities while excluding Native voices from exhibit-creation process, and being complicit in state-sponsored colonialism. However, Aboriginal communities and individuals have never been entirely absent from museums. They have had a powerful and increasingly prominent presence, with many Natives taking pride in and believing in the usefulness of museum mandates. This essay uses the relationship between the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia and First Nations, in particular the Stó:lō, to demonstrate these inconsistencies. In order to address the tension between postcolonial theory and historical practice, this essay contends that while criticisms of museums are indeed justified and do apply to MOA, many ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No 165: Spring 2010 ... |
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