PEERS, LAURA & ALISON K. BROWN (EDITORS)

Museums and Source Communities. A Routledge Reader.

London: Routledge, 2003. First Paperback Edition. Original Decorated Wrappers. Slight water damage to lower margins of text block. Text block somewhat shaken. Previous owner's post-it labels & occasional annotations. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. ; Slight water damage to lower margins of text block. Text block somewhat shaken. Previous owner's post-it labels & occasional annotations. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. ; 24.6 x 17.5 x 1.5 cms; xv, 280 pages; ? Laura Peers is a Canadian anthropologist and historian specializing in Indigenous heritage and museum studies. She served as Curator for the Americas Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and was a Professor of Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford until her retirement in 2018. Her work focuses on the meanings of historic material culture to Indigenous communities today, and on changing relations between museums and Indigenous communities. Peers has facilitated numerous projects reconnecting Indigenous peoples with their cultural artifacts, including the Blackfoot Shirts Project and the Great Box Project. Alison K. Brown is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where she also holds an honorary Curatorial Fellowship with the University Museums. Her research addresses issues of representation, access, and cultural revitalization using museum collections as a focus. Since 1998, she has conducted fieldwork with the Blackfoot nations of Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai, collaborating on projects that explore the revival of cultural histories through museum artifacts.. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 62914

Catalogue: Museology

Keywords: Academia Theory