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Museums and source communities : a Routledge reader / edited by Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown.

Summary:

The growth of collaboration between museums and source communities - the people from whom collections originate - is an important development in modern museum practice. This volume combines influential published research with commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0415280516
  • ISBN: 9780415280518
  • ISBN: 0415280524 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780415280525 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780203987834
  • ISBN: 0203987837
  • Physical Description: xv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Yup'ik elders in museums: fieldwork turned on its head -- The object in view: Aborigines, Melanesians, and museums -- The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms: collaborating with a community -- Integrating Native views into museum procedures: hope and practice at the National Museum of the American Indian -- Taking the photographs home: the recovery of a Mãori history -- Looking to see: reflections on visual repatriation in the Purari Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Remebering our namesakes: audience reactions to archival film of King Island, Alaska -- Snapshots on the dreaming: photographs of the past and present -- How to decorate a house: the renegotiaition of cultural representations at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology -- Curating African Worlds -- Objects, agency and museums: continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge -- Transforming archaeology through practice: strategies for collaborative archaeology and the Community Archaeology Project at Quseir, Egypt -- Glenbow's Blackfoot Gallery: working towards co-existence.
Subject:
Ethnological museums and collections > Social aspects.
Museums > Acquisitions > Social aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Summary: The growth of collaboration between museums and source communities - the people from whom collections originate - is an important development in modern museum practice. This volume combines influential published research with commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved.