Defining and Redefining American Indian Identity: an Examination of the Role of the Museum in Contemporary Ethnogenesis in the United States
As a platform for the display of cultures and a structuring agent in their formation, museums play a unique role in the negotiation of social identities. A museum’s approach to the interpretation of identity is shaped by the socio-political climate in which it exists. In the United States, a nation-...
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University of Leicester
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/237 |
