UID:
almafu_9959240708002883
Format:
1 online resource (253 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-8890-181-3
Series Statement:
Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 39
Content:
Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970's, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ""expert meeting"" held in November 2007 at the National M
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Related Collections -- Curators, Collections, and Inuit Communities -- Speaking Images -- Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage -- The Repatriation of Greenland's Cultural Heritage from Denmark to Greenland -- The Greenland Collections -- Collaborations with Native Peoples in the American Southwest and Midwest: 1967-2007 -- Conservation's Role in Building Relationships with Source Communities -- Leiden Links and Liaisons -- A Place for Things to be Alive -- Yesterday's Knowledge, Tomorrow's Future -- Cultural Centerss in the Amerindian Villages in Southern Suriname -- Sharing Cultural Heritage -- Afterword: 'Nothing is Impossible' -- Appendix: Discussions.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-8890-066-3
Language:
English
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