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Historicizing Canadian Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Historicizing Canadian Anthropology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Historicizing Canadian Anthropology is the first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study in this country. It addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline: the shaping influence of Aboriginal-anthropological encounters; the challenge of compiling a history for the Canadian context; and the place of international and institutional relations. The contributors to this collection reflect on the definition and scope of the discipline and explore the degree to which a uniquely Canadian tradition affects anthropological theory, practice, and reflexivity.

Curatorship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Curatorship

Museums and cultural centres play an important role in the re-emergence of cultural autonomy in indigenous societies. The May 1994 symposium, Curatorship: Indigenous Perspectives in Post-Colonial Societies, examined the realignment of relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of the Commonwealth in the context of traditional museum practices. It supported the right of Indigenous peoples to control the management of their cultural heritage and underlined the need for redefining museum models.

Kugaluk Site and the Nuvorugmiut
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

Kugaluk Site and the Nuvorugmiut

A report on the excavation and analysis of the Kugaluk site, a small historic Inuit site located near the outlet of the Eskimo Lakes, in the western Canadian Arctic, which greatly expands our present understanding of the Nuvorugmiut, and by extension the Mackenzie Inuit in general.

Privileging the Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Privileging the Past

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Ostrowitz is an art historian and an artist who lives in New York, is affiliated with Yale University, and is a former assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Here she presents a thorough, scholarly exploration of the complex issues of authenticity, tradition, and creative translation-carefully considering Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses, and drawing on an extensive body of interviews with tribal leaders, artists, and artisans known and respected in both Native and non-Native venues. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Canadian craft and museum practice, 1900-1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Canadian craft and museum practice, 1900-1950

This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organization, education, and government involvement.

Stories of Canada
  • Language: en

Stories of Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Welcome to your history. Stories of Canada ? The Canadian History Hall presents Canada's story as you've never seen it before. Explore Canada's history through the diverse experiences and perspectives of the real people who lived it. Discover our collective story of conflict, struggle and loss, as well as success, achievement and hope. See the faces of First Peoples who walked this land thousands of years ago ? brought to life for the first time through scientific reconstructions. Trace the events and experiences that led to the foundation of a country stretching from sea to sea to sea, which has withstood the test of time. Rediscover contemporary struggles for the social and political rights that have made Canada a more inclusive and diverse society, and learn how Canada emerged as a prosperous and independent country on the world stage. This catalogue is the companion publication of the monumental and captivating Canadian History Hall, the signature exhibition of Canada's national museum of human history, created in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

In the shadow of the sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 553

In the shadow of the sun

This volume makes available, in English, most of the essays written to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s exhibition of the same name. Not included, are the essays by Gisela Hoffman, Bernadette Driscoll and Elizabeth McLuhan and the exhibition catalogue section which appeared in the original German publication. This book provides an overview of the evolution of contemporary Native Canadian art. Regional styles as well as individual artistic styles are discussed and the various subjects, themes and techniques reflected in the works are examined.

Toward the 21st century / En vue du 21e siècle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

Toward the 21st century / En vue du 21e siècle

New directions in museum programming are presented in 13 papers representing a variety of perspectives that are guiding the transformation of Canada’s national museums in preparation for the twenty-first century. / Les nouvelles orientations de la programmation des musées sont présentées dans 13 articles, qui représentent des perspectives diversifiées guidant la transformation des musées nationaux du Canada en préparation du XXIe siècle.

Studies in history and museums
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Studies in history and museums

The authors of this volume attempt to describe the relationship between history as a field of study and museums as vehicles for the presentation of historical discourse. The development of history museums, the way in which exhibits are created, the manner in which historians function in a museum setting, and the issues connected with the treatment of the history of specific sectors of our population are the themes addressed.

Revelations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Revelations

In recognition of the year 2000 and its significance for the Christian world, religion provides the common thread that binds together the book’s variety of subject matter, concerns and methodologies. This compilation of eleven papers focuses on politics, museums, religion and war; reports and surveys; as well as research based on the collections.