Negotiating with the Public - Ethnographic Museums and Ethnopolitics
Indigenous peoples, like the Sami of Fenno-Scandinavia, continue to be the object of museum display in ethnographic museums. Most of these exhibits focus predominantly on culture history via objects that reveal the quality and richness of indigenous cultures, with less emphasis on the political stru...
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ftleicesterunojs:oai:ojs1.journals.le.ac.uk:article/203 2023-05-15T18:10:48+02:00 Negotiating with the Public - Ethnographic Museums and Ethnopolitics Eidheim, Harald Bjørklund, Ivar Brantenberg, Terje 2015-04-17 application/pdf https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/203 eng eng University of Leicester Open Journals https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/203/216 https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/203 Copyright (c) 2015 Harald Eidheim, Ivar Bjørklund, Terje Brantenberg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Museum and Society; Vol 10, No 2 (2012); 95-120 1479-8360 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftleicesterunojs 2021-06-18T06:07:27Z Indigenous peoples, like the Sami of Fenno-Scandinavia, continue to be the object of museum display in ethnographic museums. Most of these exhibits focus predominantly on culture history via objects that reveal the quality and richness of indigenous cultures, with less emphasis on the political struggles that indigenous peoples are involved in. This paper is a reflection on the experiences in making a museum representation of a modern indigenous movement – the struggle of Sami in Norway for recognition and rights as an indigenous people. The project was meant not just to present a new way to represent indigenous peoples, but also to be designed as an argument in the ongoing ethnopolitical discourse on equity and difference in Sami-Norwegian relations. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami University of Leicester Open Journals Norway |
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Indigenous peoples, like the Sami of Fenno-Scandinavia, continue to be the object of museum display in ethnographic museums. Most of these exhibits focus predominantly on culture history via objects that reveal the quality and richness of indigenous cultures, with less emphasis on the political struggles that indigenous peoples are involved in. This paper is a reflection on the experiences in making a museum representation of a modern indigenous movement – the struggle of Sami in Norway for recognition and rights as an indigenous people. The project was meant not just to present a new way to represent indigenous peoples, but also to be designed as an argument in the ongoing ethnopolitical discourse on equity and difference in Sami-Norwegian relations. |
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