Research Catalog

Title

The future of indigenous museums : perspectives from the southwest Pacific / edited by Nick Stanley.

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Stanley, Nick.

Description

viii, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book looks to the future of museum practice by 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 use to which historic records are put in the service of community development and cultural renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Museums and collections

Uniform Title

Museums and collections.

Subject

• Ethnological museums and collections > Oceania

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.

Contents

Introduction : indigeneity and museum practice in the Southwest Pacific / Nick Stanley -- 1. Resourcing change : fieldworkers, the women's culture project and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre / Lissant Bolton -- 2. The future of indigenous museums : the Solomon Islands case / Lawrence Foana'ota -- 3. Dangerous heritage : Southern New Ireland, the museum and the display of the past / Sean Kingston -- 4. Memory, violence and representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia / Diane Losche -- 5. Tourism and indigenous duration of culture in Lifou, New Caledonia / Tate LeFevre -- 6. The journey of the stars : Gab Titui, a cultural centre for the Torres Strait / Anita Herle, Jude Philp and Leilani Bin Juda -- 7. 'Quite another world of aboriginal life' : indigenous people in an evolving museumscape / Eric Venbrux -- 8. The Papua New Guinea National Museum and art gallery as a modern Haus Tumbuna / Sebastian Haraha -- 9. Moving the centre : Christianity, the longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre / Alison Dundon -- 10. Indigenous responses to political and economic challenges : the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New Guinea / Christin Kocher Schmid -- 11. Can museums become indigenous? : the Asmat Museum of Culture and progress and contemporary Papua / Nick Stanley -- 12. The transformation of cultural centres in Papua New Guinea / Robert L. Welsch -- 13. The theoretical future of indigenous museums : concept and practice / Christina Kreps.

ISBN

• 9781845451882 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1845451880 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007021965

OCLC

• 137331464
• SCSB-5359436

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries