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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155086003321

Autore

Matthews Maureen Anne <1949->

Titolo

Naamiwan's Drum : The Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinaabe Artefacts / / Maureen Matthews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2016

ISBN

1-4426-2244-X

1-4426-2243-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

940.5405

Soggetti

Cultural property - Repatriation

Manitoba Antiquities Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Omishoosh : a visit to the museum -- 3. Animacy : linguistic considerations -- 4. Dewe'igan : repatriation -- 5. Personhood : wiikaan and artefact -- 6. Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge : Ojibwe advocacy and revitalization -- 7. Repatriation : cultural rights and the construction of meaning -- 8. Nelson Owen : mitigwakik homecoming -- 9. Agency and artefacts : new theoretical approaches -- 10. Repatriating agency : an agency analysis of repatriation -- Appendix A: Timeline -- Appendix B: Ojibwe language notes -- Appendix C: Anishinaabemowin glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

"Maureen Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Containing fourteen beautiful colour illustrations, Naamiwan's Drum is a compelling account of repatriation as well as a cautionary tale for museum professionals."--

"Naamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American



Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family and only half of the artefacts were ever returned to the museum."--