TY - JOUR
AU - Conn, Steven
AB - Book Reviews 483 allowed to decay beyond recognition or that whose value rests largely in its formulation of are bulldozed in favor of gentrification proj - new models for preservation practice, part 2 ects. When this happens, we lose more than seems incongruous since it focuses on archi- the fragments of a historic urban fabric; we tectural history’s past through examinations also lose what Kaufman calls “storyscapes,” of the traditions of travel and collecting. As or places that “connect to meaningful narra- an architectural historian, I enjoyed reading tives about history, culture, and identity” (p. those chapters, but even the author suggests 1). The “place” and “story” of his title derive that readers may wish to skip that portion of from this issue. the book since it interrupts the predominant Race matters in preservation practice in at narrative and the focus on the revision of his- least two ways: first, whites overwhelmingly toric preservation practices. The overall effect dominate the professional practice of historic is that the volume could have been improved preservation, creating what Kaufman calls a with another round of editing. Nevertheless, “diversity deficit” that results in the perpetu- this is a valuable contribution to the fields 
TI - Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives. Ed. by Susan Sleeper-Smith. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xii, 362 pp. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-1948-9.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/97.2.483
DA - 2010-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/contesting-knowledge-museums-and-indigenous-perspectives-ed-by-susan-vMrAEvE2cf
SP - 483
EP - 484
VL - 97
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -