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Visiting With the Ancestors Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces

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In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage.

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10.5 x 10, 232 pages

Publisher

: ., 2016

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Language

English

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9781771990370.01

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10.5 x 10, 232 pages

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

Canadian History, Cultural Studies
History, Indigenous Studies
, Museum Studies, Western History

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Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown

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Arin

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