Taxidermic Signs
In Taxidermic Signs, 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...
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| description | In Taxidermic Signs, 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 "animality" and "aboriginality" within colonial narratives of extinction. Through a series of provocative case studies, Wakeham demonstrates how the semiotics of taxidermy travels across diverse cultural texts. From the display of animal specimens and aboriginal artifacts in the Banff Park Museum, to the ethnographic films of Edward S. Curtis and Marius Barbeau, to the fetishization of aboriginal remains in the Kennewick Man and Kwäday Dän Ts'inchi repatriation cases, Wakeham argues that taxidermy's sign system reinvents mythologies of disappearing wildlife and vanishing Indians while simultaneously valorizing the power of Western technologies to memorialize these figures. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1648002025-08-09T05:00:56Z Taxidermic Signs Wakeham, Pauline Indigenous North Americans thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoples In Taxidermic Signs, 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 "animality" and "aboriginality" within colonial narratives of extinction. Through a series of provocative case studies, Wakeham demonstrates how the semiotics of taxidermy travels across diverse cultural texts. From the display of animal specimens and aboriginal artifacts in the Banff Park Museum, to the ethnographic films of Edward S. Curtis and Marius Barbeau, to the fetishization of aboriginal remains in the Kennewick Man and Kwäday Dän Ts'inchi repatriation cases, Wakeham argues that taxidermy's sign system reinvents mythologies of disappearing wildlife and vanishing Indians while simultaneously valorizing the power of Western technologies to memorialize these figures. 2025-08-09T05:00:56Z 2025-08-09T05:00:56Z 2025-08-08T08:36:20Z 2008 book ONIX_20250808T103036_9781452974644_92 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105249 9781452974644 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/164800 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105249/1/9781452974644.pdf University of Minnesota Press 10.5749/9781452974644 10.5749/9781452974644 7f3d7612-a4bc-4744-a06e-7dbc54d8a1af 712d15aa-43d2-450a-8c7d-c17cc8b223da b5941080-3f20-4864-95c6-753acff7c9f4 9781452974644 Big Ten Open Books Minneapolis [...] Big Collection Initiative Big Ten Academic Alliance Committee on Institutional Cooperation 10.13039/100026234 open access |
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