Taxidermic Signs : Reconstructing Aboriginality /

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Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wakeham, Pauline, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Taxidermy.
Museum techniques.
Indians of North America > Museums.
Indians of North America > Material culture.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Taxidermie > Amerique du Nord.
Museologie > Amerique du Nord.
Taxidermy > North America.
Museum techniques > North America.
Indians of North America > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Indians of North America > Material culture > Exhibitions.
North America.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wakeham theorizes taxidermy as a sign system that conflates animality and aboriginality within colonial narratives of extinction.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816656615

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