Native Americans in British Museums - Living Histories

Drawing on interviews with Indigenous American visitors to UK museum displays and collections between 2017 and 2019, this Element highlights the most significant inadequacies of contemporary engagement with Native American visitors and communities, identifying fundamental problems rooted in the ethos of collection management and display.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Native American visitors to museums in the UK; 3. The twin crises: British ethnographic collections in the twenty-first century; 4. Designing policy; 5. Conclusion; Appendix.

Summary

Drawing on interviews with Indigenous American visitors to UK museum displays and collections between 2017 and 2019, this Element highlights the most significant inadequacies of contemporary engagement with Native American visitors and communities, identifying fundamental problems rooted in the ethos of collection management and display.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Davy, Jack (University of East Anglia) Davy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108829434
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82943-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Relating to Native American people, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, museums; indigenous; heritage; Native American; policy