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The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures

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I bought this book for a museum exhibition I was curating, entitled "Changing Perceptions of the American Indian." I had checked this book out from my local college library and found, while reading the library copy, I wanted to highlight and write little notes for myself in the margin. So I bought my own copy. The book is filled with great and thorough insight and was incredibly helpful, however some of the articles (each written by a different authority in Native American art/artifact display) can get a little dry sometimes. I found it hard to stay interested in what was being said at times. This sort of off-and-on readability is to be expected when you have many contributors to the same book, however, and I would still definitely recommend this text to anyone interested in this subject. The authors encompass a range of experts, all of whom provide very interesting perspectives. I would highly recommend this book to mature readers (not in the sense of mature content, but mature sentence structure and word choice).