Sharing knowledge & cultural heritage : first nations of the Americas : studies in collaboration with indigenous peoples from Greenland, North and South America : proceedings of an expert meeting National Museum of Ethnology Leiden, the Netherlands /

Sharing knowledge & cultural heritage : first nations of the Americas : studies in collaboration with indigenous peoples from Greenland, North and South America : proceedings of an expert meeting National Museum of Ethnology Leiden, the Netherlands / Sharing knowledge and cultural heritage editors, Laura Van Brockoven, Cunera Buijs, Pieter Hovens. - Leiden : Sidestone Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (vi, 243 pages) : illustrations (some color) - Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 39 . - Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 39. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK & CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ""expert meeting"" held in November 2007 at the National M

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Ethnological museums and collections--Congresses.
Intercultural communication--Congresses.
Indians of North America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Congresses.
Indians of South America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Congresses.
Indigenous peoples--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Greenland--Congresses.
Ethnologie--Musées et collections--Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Indians of North America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting.
Indians of South America--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting.
Intercultural communication.


Greenland.


Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.

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