Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s ideas shaped museum curation through his friend, designer Harley Parker, in the 1960s.
Articles on decolonizing museums
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U.S. laws on the repatriation of Indigenous artifacts and remains still uphold inequities in the relationships between Indigenous people and the agencies holding their materials.
Western approaches to studying African materials have had a colonial bias. A curator considers what it means to think of the collection as needing to exist in relation to communities.
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Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
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Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies; Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History, University of Toronto
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Curator of Canadian and African Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University