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The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
Museums and Collections, Band 1 1. Aufl.

von: Nick Stanley
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.06.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9780857455727
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	272

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Titelbeschreibung

Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number of motives, ranging from the commercial to the cultural political (and many combine both). A close study of this phenomenon is not only valuable for museological practice but, as has been argued, it may challenge our current bedrock assumptions about the very nature and purpose of the museum. This book looks to the future of museum practice through examining how museums have evolved particularly in the non-western world to incorporate the present and the future in the display of culture. Of particular concern is the uses to which historic records are put in the service of community development and cultural renaissance.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Editorial Preface by Hirini Mead
 <a>Introduction:</a><a> Indigeneity and Museum Practice in the Southwest Pacific</a> Nick Stanley
 PART I: ISLAND MELANESIA
 Chapter 1. Resourcing Change: Fieldworkers, the Women’s Culture Project and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre Lissant Bolton
 Chapter 2. The Future of Indigenous Museums: The Solomon Islands Case Lawrence Foana‘ota
 Chapter 3. Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past Sean Kingston
 Chapter 4. Memory, Violence and Representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia Diane Losche
 Chapter 5. Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia Tate LeFevre
 PART II: NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
 Chapter 6. The Journey of the Stars: Gab Titui, a Cultural Centre for the Torres Strait Anita Herle, Jude Philp and Leilani Bin Juda
 Chapter 7. ‘Quite Another World of Aboriginal Life’: Indigenous People in an Evolving Museumscape Eric Venbrux
 PART III: NEW GUINEA
 Chapter 8. The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery as a Modern Haus Tumbuna Sebastian Haraha
 Chapter 9. Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre Alison Dundon
 Chapter 10. Indigenous Responses to Political and Economic Challenges: the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New Guinea Christin Kocher Schmid
 Chapter 11. Can Museums become Indigenous? The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress and Contemporary Papua Nick Stanley
 PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS MUSEUMS
 Chapter 12. The Transformation of Cultural Centres in Papua New Guinea Robert L. Welsch
 Chapter 13. The Theoretical Future of Indigenous Museums: Concept and Practice Christina Kreps
 Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Autorenportrait

Nick Stanley is Director of Research and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. He has worked on collections and display within museums of Oceanic materials both in Melanesia as well as Europe and North America. His current work is on the artistic production of the Asmat people in West Papua.