Representing the Museum and the People: Rhetorical Sovereignty and the Representational Genres of American Indian Museums

• Main Author: King, Lisa
• Other Authors: Farmer, Frank, Lyons, Scott R., Rahder, Bobbi
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Kansas 2008
• Subjects: Language; Rhetoric and composition; Native American studies; Museology; Rhetorical sovereignty; Genre theory; New museology; Haskell; Indian; anishina*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6613; http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2497

This study addresses questions surrounding American Indian representations, specifically how Native nations use standard museum communicative structures to forward those communities' needs and goals, thus enacting what Scott Richard Lyons terms "rhetorical sovereignty." Using rhetoric...