Session I. Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Museums

Commentator: Ray Silverman, University of Michigan

“Elite Ethnography and Historical Memory: Representing the Quintessential Primitive in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil”
Department of History, SUNY-Buffalo

“Re-Inventing George Heye: Nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian and its Collections”
National Museum of the American Indian,
Smithsonian Institution

“Ethnographic Showcases as Sites of Knowledge Production and Resistance”
Department of History, Boston College

“Ethnographic Elaboration, Indigenous Contestations and the Cultural Politics of Imagining Community: A View from the District Six Museum in South Africa”
Department of History, University of the Western Cape

Session II. Curatorial Practices: Voice, Values, Languages, and Traditions

Commentator: Jacki Rand, University of Iowa

“West Side Stories: The Blending of Voice And Representation through A Shared Curatorial Practice”
Diefenbaker Canada Centre, University of Saskatchewan
Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan

“The Construction of Native Voice at the National Museum of the American Indian”
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

“Museums and Mexican Indigenous Territoriality”
Centro de Estudios Anthropològicos El Colegio de Michoacàn (Mexico)

Session III. Museums and the State

Commentator: Brenda Child, University of Minnesota

“Recognizing Responsibilities Towards Knowledge: The Zuni Museum and the Mediation Of Different Knowledge Systems”
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

“Tsi?niyukwalho?ta, the Oneida Nation Museum: Creating a space for Haudenosaunne Kinship and Identity”
The Evergreen State College

“Museums as Sites of Decolonization: Truth Telling in National and Tribal Museums”
American Studies Department
University of California, Santa Cruz