ABSTRACT
This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.
Focusing on museums in the UK, North America and the Pacific, the book highlights three areas which demonstrate the new developments most clearly:
- the museum as field site or 'contact zone' - a place which source community members enter for purposes of consultation and collaboration
- visual repatriation - the use of photography to return images of ancestors, historical moments and material heritage to source communities
- exhibition case studies - these are discussed to reveal the implications of cross-cultural and collaborative research for museums, and how such projects have challenged established attitudes and practices.
As the first overview of its kind, this collection will be essential reading for museum staff working with source communities, for community members involved with museum programmes, and for students and academics in museum studies and social anthropology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|63 pages
Museums and contact work
chapter 4|7 pages
Integrating native views into museum procedures
Hope and practice at the National Museum of the American Indian
part 2|71 pages
Talking visual histories
chapter 6|12 pages
Looking to see
Reflections on visual repatriation in the Purari Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
chapter 7|13 pages
Remembering our namesakes
Audience reactions to archival film of King Island, Alaska
part 3|99 pages
Community collaboration in exhibitions
chapter 9|10 pages
How to decorate a house
The renegotiation of cultural representations at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology
chapter |14 pages
Objects, agency and museums
Continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge
chapter 12|19 pages
Transforming archaeology through practice
Strategies for collaborative archaeology and the Community Archaeology Project at Quseir, Egypt
