Sharing knowledge & cultural heritage: first nations of the Americas : studies in collaboration with indigenous peoples from Greenland, North and South America : proceedings of an expert meeting National Museum of Ethnology Leiden, the Netherlands

In: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden no. 39

Abstract

Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK & CH), First Nations of the Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970s, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ""expert meeting"" held in November 2007 at the National M