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North-American aboriginal curators' understandings of aboriginal cultural heritage: a discourse-analytic approach
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North-American aboriginal curators' understandings of aboriginal cultural heritage: a discourse-analytic approach

Proceedings of the 2011 iConference, pp.788-789
iConference '11
02/08/2011
DOI: 10.1145/1940761.1940905

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Abstract

This poster presents the main aspects of my dissertation proposal, which focuses on discourses around aboriginal cultural heritage produced by aboriginal museum and gallery professionals in North America. This is a particularly important and timely project, given the scarcity in Library and Information Science of studies exploring the notion of cultural heritage, especially aboriginal cultural heritage. Moreover, since aboriginal curators are key actors in the production and circulation of aboriginal cultural heritage, their perspective on aboriginal cultural heritage is invaluable.
discourse analysis aboriginal cultural heritage museum curators cultural information information practices

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