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Museums and source communities : a Routledge reader / edited by Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnological museums and collections--Social aspects.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Museums--Acquisitions--Social aspects.
- Museums.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:the museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaborationvisual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ances
- Contents:
- Yup'ik elders in museums: fieldwork turned on its head
- The object in view: Aborigines, Melanesians, and museums
- The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms: collaborating with a community
- Integrating Native views into museum procedures: hope and practice at the National Museum of the American Indian
- Taking the photographs home: the recovery of a Maori history
- Looking to see: reflections on visual repatriation in the Purari Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Remebering our namesakes: audience reactions to archival film of King Island, Alaska
- Snapshots on the dreaming: photographs of the past and present
- How to decorate a house: the renegotiaition of cultural representations at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
- Curating African Worlds
- Objects, agency and museums: continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge
- Transforming archaeology through practice: strategies for collaborative archaeology and the Community Archaeology Project at Quseir, Egypt
- Glenbow's Blackfoot Gallery: working towards co-existence.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-46378-2
- 1-134-46379-0
- 1-280-14204-9
- 0-203-98783-7
- 9780203987834
- OCLC:
- 60788519
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