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  1. Mar 2025
    1. Unlike the kinds of museum practices and outreach that have occurred in American and British museums since the 1980s (including the involvement of Native communities in the staging and/or repatriation of their artifacts), the acritical embrace of ongoing fictions such as the “spiritual,” “mysterious” Other speaks to a reticence to come to terms with the colonialist past, as well as its ongoing legacy in the Parisian banlieues.

      This phrase clarifies a comparison between museum practices in different countries and how postcolonial concerns have been addressed.

      • "Museum practices and outreach" I think this refers to the way how museums engage with visitors and present their collections.

      "Staging and/or repatriation" - Indigenous people's voices and cultures are being narrated in museums.

      • "Involvement of Native communities " Indicating a shift to more collaborative approaches that appreciate Native people's artifacts as much as their own Western cultural heritage.

      "Since the 1980s" Why specifically "since the 1980s"?

      • "The acritical embrace of ongoing fictions such as the "spiritual,""mysterious" Other speaks to..."
      • Use of 'Ongoing fictions' could suggest accepting how the Native narrative have historical roots.
      • Capitalized 'Other'