 | Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality Subjects: E76.85.W34 2008; Indians of North America -- Museums; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Exhibitions; Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions; Museum techniques -- North America; Taxidermy -- North America; Pauline Wakeham decodes the practice of taxidermy as it was performed in North America from the late nineteenth century to the present, revealing its connection to ecological and racial discourses integral to the maintenance of colonial power. Moving beyond the literal practice of stuffing skins, Wakeham theorizes taxidermy as a sign system that conflates OC animalityOCO and OC aboriginalityOCO within colonial narratives of extinction. |
