Shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw: The museum's confinement of Indigenous kin.
Across the globe, museums filled with glass and plexiglass vitrines display collections of Indigenous belongings. The typical display scenario for such belongings places them upon plinths, underneath plexiglass. These cases render the life they contain into objects of display, things to be seen but...
| Publicado en: | American Anthropologist Vol. 126; no. 2; pp. 233 - 248 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2024
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