Museums as Restorative Environments
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Moira G. Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia. She has written extensively on the subjects of museums, indigenous cultural politics and repatriation. Her publications include Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era and Museums and Repatriation. Her current research interests relate to the care and protec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Curator: The Museum Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0011-3069
DOI: 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2010.00044.x