The Musée du Quai Branly is a similar but a different set of issues from the Smithsonian's museum. There is no uproar about whether the Native (North American, by the way) objects are art or not. (And I think that British author is condescending a bit with all that fighting Gauls rhetoric.)
In fact there is no uproar--the museum is about avoiding an uproar.
But the potential issues are tribe vs tribe (who invented what; who lived where; what style is characteristic of what tribe) and US vs Natives (solution: present 500 rifles hanging in space but don't say who they belonged to).
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In fact there is no uproar--the museum is about avoiding an uproar.
But the potential issues are tribe vs tribe (who invented what; who lived where; what style is characteristic of what tribe) and US vs Natives (solution: present 500 rifles hanging in space but don't say who they belonged to).
- tom moody 6-06-2007 3:29 am