SINGING AND DANCING AT NIGHT: MUSEUM LEARNING FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

I was invited by Alison Edwards and Laurence Sullivan to be part of a conference at the Harvard Divinity School in 2002.  Out of that conference came the important volume “Stewards of the Sacred: Sacred Objects, Religious Culture and the Museum as Social Instituion” edited by Edwards and Sullivan and published by AAM in 2004. 

My chapter “Singing and Dancing at Night” is part of a series of papers I wrote about the many important things I learned from Native peoples in the US and elsewhere.  Among them was the blurring of sacred and rational thinking.  My own world view has been changed forever by the willingness of Indian people to teach me what they wanted from museums.

A copy of this chapter is attached. 

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