Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morphy, Howard.

McKenzie, Robyn.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

Series:

Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021.

Biography/History:

Howard Morphy is an Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University. Robyn McKenzie is ANU postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ARC funded project The Relational Museum and its Objects: engaging Indigenous Australian communities with their distributed collections.

Contents:

List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroductionSection I: Making and Remaking of CollectionsChapter 1 Inalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor collectionAnna EdmundsonChapter 2 The emergence of value in the process of the Sámi repatriation. 'Bååstede'Gro WeenChapter 3 Colonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentimentHenrietta Lidchi & Nicole M. HartwellChapter 4 Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchangingChristopher MortonSection II: Creating Value - Inside and Outside the MuseumChapter 5 Dealing with the value of Aboriginal secret-sacred collections.Jason M. GibsonChapter 6 Systems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex.Lissant BoltonChapter 7 Displaying, creating and mobilising value in a museum exhibition: Pacific Currents in Cambridge.Anita HerleChapter 8 The revaluation of historical collections by source communities - a case study from Arnhem Land.Robyn McKenzieSection III: Engagement and ReturnChapter 9 'Go throw it in the river' or shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections.Josh BellChapter 10 Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste.Joanna BarrkmanChapter 11 Digital/object/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context. Have you Socialised your Clones?Gwyneira IsaacSection IV: Indigenous AgencyChapter 12 Value creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective.Jilda AndrewsChapter 13 YolKu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections. The work and journey of Joseph Gumbula.Jessica de Largy HealyChapter 14 Creating value through cultural capital. 'Witira Kanyila - "work as one to make it strong."'Chrischona SchmidtIndex

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Park-Choi Fund for Anthropology Studies.

ISBN:

9781003139324

1003139329

9781000515541

1000515540

9781000515527

1000515524

Publisher Number:

99992182736

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