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

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 fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Museums and Collections ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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