This Is Our Life ─ Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice

Krmpotich (museum studies, U. of Toronto) and Peers (material anthropology, U. of Oxford) produce here a superbly detailed trip report with personal annotations. They describe the circumstances that brought all parties together, preparations for the visit, moments of encounter, reflecting on the visit, maintaining relationships into the future, the complicated relationships as they are and as they might be, and Haida Gwaii's work with the museum. US distribution is by the U. of Washington Press. Canadian distribution is by the U. of Toronto Press. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Cara Krmpotich is assistant professor of museum studies at the University of Toronto. Laura Peers is curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum and a reader in material anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford.