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Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

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This is a pretty good book about preservation of artifacts that can be used for a college class where there is a lot of group discussion. Each chapter talks about Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and other indigenous people that are trying to preserve their identity and their culture through museum representation. However, many of these people feel like they are not represented fairly since museums tend to try and make it fun for visitors to go to museums, rather than representing people how they really were; proud native people with rich cultural values. Many museums are all focused on their profits, rather than on things that many people hold sacred. There is also discussion on whether it is fair to move objects from their original burial sites and place them in museums, or should they be returned to local Native population as objects of tremendous cultural value. It is a perfect book for discussion since it deals with controversial topics of museum representation.