The Future of Indigenous Museums : : Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific / / ed. by Nick Stanley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bin Juda, Leilani,; Bolton, Lissant,; Dundon, Alison,; Foana‘ota, Lawrence,; Haraha, Sebastian,; Herle, Anita,; Kingston, Sean,; Kocher Schmid, Christin,; Kreps, Christina,; LeFevre, Tate,; Losche, Diane,; Mead, Hirini,; Philp, Jude,; Stanley, Nick,; Venbrux, Eric,; Welsch, Robert L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Stanley, Nick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Museums and Collections ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Editorial Preface -- Introduction Indigeneity and Museum Practice in the Southwest Pacific -- Part I Island Melanesia -- 1 Resourcing Change: Fieldworkers, the Women’s Culture Project and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre -- 2 The Future of Indigenous Museums: The Solomon Islands Case -- 3 Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past -- 4 Memory, Violence and Representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia -- 5 Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia -- Part II Northern Australia -- 6 The Journey of the Stars: Gab Titui, a Cultural Centre for the Torres Strait -- 7 ‘Quite Another World of Aboriginal Life’: Indigenous People in an Evolving Museumscape -- Part III New Guinea -- 8 The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery as a Modern Haus Tumbuna -- 9 Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre -- 10 Indigenous Responses to Political and Economic Challenges: the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New Guinea -- 11 Can Museums become Indigenous? The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress and Contemporary Papua -- Part IV Reflections on the Future of Indigenous Museums -- 12 The Transformation of Cultural Centres in Papua New Guinea -- 13 The Theoretical Future of Indigenous Museums: Concept and Practice -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index