Gwyneira Isaac

Broschiertes Buch

Mediating Knowledges

Origins of a Zuni Tribal Museum

Beschreibung

Tells the story of the search by the Zuni people for a culturally relevant public institution to help them maintain their heritage for future generations. Using a theoretical perspective grounded in knowledge systems, it examines how Zunis developed the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center to mediate between Zuni and Anglo-American values of history and culture.

Autor

Gwyneira Isaac is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University. She worked at the A: shiwi A: wan Museum and Heritage Center in New Mexico for eighteen months in the late 1990s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780816537976
• ISBN-10: 0816537976
• Artikelnr.: 51519817