"South of the Border" at the NMAI

Autor/in	Delugan, Robin Maria
Titel	"South of the Border" at the NMAI
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 30 (2006) 3-4, S.558-573 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Latin Americans; American Indian Education; Museums; American Indians; American Indian Culture; Foreign Policy; United States History; American Indian History; Death; South America + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Museum; Museumswesen; Museen; American Indian; Indianer; Außenpolitik; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Südamerika
Abstract	This essay specifically examines how the NMAI engages Native peoples from Latin America. In this article, the author argues that more than showcasing the diversity of Native cultures the museum is an important platform for reporting Indian and nation-state tensions and other struggles and victories. By situating the realities of Native peoples from "south of the border" in local, transnational, and global matrices, the NMAI highlights factors and conditions that unite Native North, Central, and South America. Because a broad lens on the conditions that affect Native communities invites a critique of U.S. Geopolitical engagements with Latin America, the limits of the NMAI as a federal institution to wholly represent Native realities are tested. Here, he features the three main halls of the NMAI, namely: (1) Our Universes; (2) Our People; and (3) Our Lives, which focuses on specific South American Native communities. The author also discusses wars, genocide, and displacement, as well as native autonomy and international solidarities. (Contains 21 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10