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Museums and the paradox of change : a case study in urgent adaptation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26671
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1997
- Author
- Janes, Robert R.
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow Museum
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Call Number
- 05.5 J25m
- Author
- Janes, Robert R.
- Responsibility
- with Glenbow Museum
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow Museum
- Published Date
- 1997
- Physical Description
- xxi, 279 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Museum Studies
- Museum
- Museums
- Abstract
- "Robert Janes is a leading voice in the changes taking place in Canada's cultural institutions. In this case study, he candidly discusses layoffs, union/management relations, and the urgency of sustainability. Contributions from Glenbow staff highlight the human side of change, and essays by Canadian and international museum directors present thoughtful perspectives."--Jacket
- Contents
- Glenbow : a case study in urgent adaptation ; Introduction -- Overview of change -- Creating a new form of organization -- Transforming Glebow : details and difficulties -- Toward a learning organization -- New ways of working -- Lessons we have learned ; Glenbow staff prespectives ; Critical commentary from the involved and the detached ; The Royal British Columbia Museum experience / Bill Barkley -- Comments from afar / Terrence Heath -- Exchanging experiences and prespectives / Emlyn H. Koster -- A Europaen perspective / Julian Spalding -- The McMichael experience / Barbara Tyler -- The Vancouver Museum experience / Wilma Wood ; Future considerations ; Introduction -- New directions -- Persistent paradoxes ; Between the past and the future ; Introduction -- Is it over yet? -- What's new at Glenbow? -- Museums and the civil society.
- ISBN
- 1895379075
- Accession Number
- 2024.47
- Call Number
- 05.5 J25m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25572
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 L54o
- Responsibility
- Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- x, [x], 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Museum
- Museum Studies
- Material culture
- North America
- Object
- History
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Art
- Abstract
- Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities.-- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Acknowledgments ; Maps ; Introduction / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 1. Object lives: innovating methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 1. Management and methodology / Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw ; 2. Crossing worlds: hide coats, relationships, and identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers ; 3. "A typical Canadian outfit": the Red River coat / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 2. The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper ; Sidebar 3. The Red River coat and its commercial promotion / Cynthia Cooper ; 4. Colonizing winter: tobogganing, toboggan suits, and imperial agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire ; Sidebar 4. Gifts of empire / Beverly Lemire ; 5. Peter Rindisbacher and the imagined North: circulations, realities, and representations / Julie-Ann Mercer ; 6. The wampum and the print: objects tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London visit, 1824-1825 / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; Sidebar 5. Active imperial networks / Jonathan Lainey and Anne Whitelaw ; 7. A brief history of the "Eskimo sweater" / Laurie K. Bertram ; 8. Clare Sheridan: British writer, sculptor, and collector in Blackfoot country, 1937 / Sarah Carter ; 9. Dolls, women's art, and Indigenous networks in the borderlands of northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock ; 10. Dew claw bags, Indigenous women, and material culture in history and practice / Judy Half and Beverly Lemire ; 11. Inscribing the North West: hide jackets and colonial surveyors / Susan Berry ; Sidebar 6. Jackets in circulation / Susan Berry ; 12. From the sanatorium to the museum and beyond: the circulation of art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals / Sara Komarnisky ; Figures ; Bibliography ; Contributors ; Index.
- ISBN
- 9780228003991
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 07.2 L54o
- Collection
- Archives Library
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