Author: Royal Ontario Museum
Publisher: Other Distribution
ISBN: 9780300246797
Category : Chintz
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition originally scheduled to be held at the Royal Ontario Museum from April 4, 2020 to September 27, 2020.
Author: Peter W. Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780888544971
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Royal Ontario Museum
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Languages : en
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Author: Douglas Hunter
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773555358
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Beardmore unfolds like a detective story as the author sifts through the voluminous evidence and follows the efforts of two unlikely debunkers, high-school teacher Teddy Elliott and government geologist T.L. Tanton, who find themselves up against Currelly and his scholarly allies. Along the way, the controversy draws in a who’s who of international figures in archaeology, Scandinavian studies, and the museum world, including anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, whose mid-1950s crusade against the find’s authenticity finally convinced scholars and curators that the grave was a fraud. Shedding light on museum practices and the state of the historical and archaeological professions in the mid-twentieth century, Beardmore offers an unparalleled view inside a major museum scandal to show how power can be exercised across professional networks and hamper efforts to arrive at the truth.
Author: Royal Ontario Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Shelly R. Butler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134390068
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."
Author: Denise Dias
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ISBN: 9780888544858
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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One foggy night, while all the bats were out scanning trees and skimming ponds for delicious dinner, Burton noticed something strange. A small stream of light poured into the cave from behind a puzzle of rocks ...
Author: Royal Ontario Museum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Author: Kelvin Browne
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ISBN: 9780888544575
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Text by Kelvin Browne.
Author: Arni Brownstone
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ISBN: 9780888544087
Category : *NF06 - Blackfoot - Schwarzfuss (Siksika)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Buffalo Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum Arni Brownstone Blackfoot tradition, art, and culture as told through six historic buffalo robes chronicling the tribal-war exploits of eight warrior-painters.
