A Museum in a Book: Teaching Culture through Decolonizing, Arts-Based Methodologies.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores the positivist, museum-based, and touristic constructions of indigenous cultures in the Americas, as represented in the DK Eyewitness series, and then overturns these constructions using an artist book created by the authors. In our analysis of the nonfiction series, we identified three trajectories: cataloguing, consignment to the past, and pleasurable display. Using techniques borrowed from new historiography and the decolonizing methodologies of Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999), we suggest ways in which adults and young people might speak back to these positivist paradigms. Visual Abstract Page 1 of 31 A Museum in a Book: Teaching Culture through Decolonizing, Arts-based Methodologie... http://www.ijea.org/v12lai1/index.html
Authors: Sharon Verner Chappell, Drew Chappell
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W269641745