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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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Museums and Collections ;
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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