Taxidermic signs
Subtitle: reconstructing aboriginality
By: Pauline Wakeham.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780816650545; 9780816650552
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Museums; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Exhibitions; Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions; Museum techniques -- North America; Taxidermy -- North America
Description: Taxidermy has been traced back over four centuries to imperial Europe. This text decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late 19th century onwards, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading the Banff Park Museum : time, affect, and the production of frontier nostalgia; title: Celluloid salvage : Edward S. Curtis's experiments with photography and film; title: Salvaging sound at last sight: Marius Barbeau and the anthropological rescue of Nass River Indians; title: Repatriation's remainders : Kennewick man, Kwday dn ts'nchi, and the reinvention of "race".