Building a Nation - Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Gorman is Collections Manager at the Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Community Museum. Klappentext Using museum and heritage sites as places to define itself as a coherent and legitimate contemporary Indian nation, the Chickasaw Nation struggles to remain accurate and yet apace with the evolving nature of museums Zusammenfassung Examines the growth of the Chickasaw Nation and argues that it is using museums and heritage sites as places to define itself as a coherent and legitimate contemporary Indian nation. In doing so, they are necessarily engaging with the shifting historiographical paradigms as well as changing articulations of how museums function and what they represent.Â

Product details

• Authors: Joshua M. Gorman
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2011
• EAN: 9780817317409
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1740-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Contemporary American Indian S; Contemporary American Indian S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology