Museum as process : translating local and global knowledges / edited by Raymond A. Silverman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silverman, Raymond Aaron, editor.

Series:

Museum meanings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnological museums and collections--Social aspects.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Museums and community.

Indigenous peoples--Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Social aspects.

Indigenous peoples.

Cultural property--Protection--Social aspects.

Cultural property.

Intercultural communication.

Communication in ethnology.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Cultural property--Protection.

Social aspects.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xvii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Contents:

1. Introduction : museum as process / Raymond A. Silverman

2. Indigenous ontologies, digital futures : plural provenances and the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw Collection in Berlin and beyond / Aaron Glass

3. Wampum unites us : digital access, interdisciplinarity and indigenous knowledge - situating the GRASAC knowledge sharing database / Heidi Bohaker, Alan Ojiig Corbiere and Ruth B. Phillips

4. Projectishare.com : sharing our past, collecting for the future / Jennifer Shannon

5. Open access versus the culture of protocols / Howard Morphy

6. The veracity of form : transforming knowledges and their forms in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea / Joshua A. Bell

7. Translating knowledge : uniting Alutiiq people with heritage information / Sven Haakanson Jr.

8. From entangled objects to engaged subjects : knowledge translation and cultural heritage regeneration / Lea S. McChesney

9. The price of knowledge and the economies of heritage in Zuni, New Mexico / Gwyneira Isaac

10. Public history in Alexandra : facing the challenges of tourism and struggle heroization / Noor Nieftagodien

11. The Culture Bank : micro-credit, living objects and community development in West Africa / Todd Vincent Crosby

12. Locating culture with/in a Ghanaian community / Raymond A. Silverman

13. Communities and museums : equal partners? / Sheila Watson

14. Challenging museum sustainability : governance, community participation and the fickle political climate in southern Luzon (Philippines) towns / Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador

15. Ko Tawa : where are the glass cabinets? / Paul Tapsell

16. The interrogative museum / Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz.

Notes:

Book available in 2014.

Outgrowth of a yearlong lecture series entitled Translating Knowledge: Global Perspectives on Museum and Community, organized by the editor at the University of Michigan in 2009-10. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415661577

0415661579

OCLC:

871341006