Across the Great Divide: Jimmie Durham's Subversive (Self) Portraits
Theses
Author/Creator
Greta Jennings Murphy
Description
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2003
Anthropology Thesis (MA) -- Memorial University, 1976.
Discusses the Indian exhibition held in during the exposition in Philadelphia and how, despite attempts to have actual members of cultural groups participate, organizers were left with static displays from ethnographic collections which failed to engage the public or increase understanding of Native Americans.
Relates the First Nations band, Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, fight against the Canadian Museum of Civilization for human bones found within their traditional Algonquin territory.
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