"An Ethnography of Our Lives: Collaborative Exhibit Making at the National Museum of the American Indian"

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Summary

This dissertation is an ethnography of the representation practices and attempts at collaboration between curators and Native Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian, in its inaugural exhibitions.

Subject

  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian Institution Exhibitions

Category

Smithsonian History Bibliography

Notes

Ph.D. dissertation

Contained within

(Dissertation)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

2008

Topic

  • Design
  • Museum openings
  • Historians
  • Ethnology
  • Anthropology
  • Exhibitions
  • Museums
  • Indians of North America
  • Museum techniques
  • Museum exhibits--Design

Place

Americas

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