http://savageminds.org/2006/08/07/boas-and-the-popular-museum/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:45:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://savageminds.org/2006/08/07/boas-and-the-popular-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-18494 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » In the Flesh in the Museum Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:38:03 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/08/07/boas-and-the-popular-museum/#comment-18494 [...] Representations of Indians in American Natural History Museums Preface: The recent posts on Ota Benga and the popular museum reminded me of an essay I had wanted to post last year when Kerim posted about the Bavarian village in display in Africa. I had prepared it for posting last year, but for some reason never did. The essay deals with the display of living people, and particularly native North and South Americans, in ethnographic/educational contexts—not the sideshow, but the museum and the culture fair. [...] [...] Representations of Indians in American Natural History Museums Preface: The recent posts on Ota Benga and the popular museum reminded me of an essay I had wanted to post last year when Kerim posted about the Bavarian village in display in Africa. I had prepared it for posting last year, but for some reason never did. The essay deals with the display of living people, and particularly native North and South Americans, in ethnographic/educational contexts—not the sideshow, but the museum and the culture fair. [...]

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