The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-596-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Museums and Collections

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 for museological practice but, as has been argued, it may challenge our current bedrock assumptions about the very nature and purpose of the museum. This book looks to the future of museum practice through 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 uses to which historic records are put in the service of community development and cultural renaissance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanley, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Editorial Preface

by Hirini Mead

Introduction: Indigeneity and Museum Practice in the Southwest Pacific

Nick Stanley

PART I: ISLAND MELANESIA

Chapter 1. Resourcing Change: Fieldworkers, the Women’s Culture Project and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre

Lissant Bolton

Chapter 2. The Future of Indigenous Museums: The Solomon Islands Case

Lawrence Foana‘ota

Chapter 3. Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past

Sean Kingston

Chapter 4. Memory, Violence and Representation in the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia

Diane Losche

Chapter 5. Tourism and Indigenous Curation of Culture in Lifou, New Caledonia

Tate LeFevre

PART II: NORTHERN AUSTRALIA

Chapter 6. The Journey of the Stars: Gab Titui, a Cultural Centre for the Torres Strait

Anita Herle, Jude Philp and Leilani Bin Juda

Chapter 7. ‘Quite Another World of Aboriginal Life’: Indigenous People in an Evolving Museumscape

Eric Venbrux

PART III: NEW GUINEA

Chapter 8. The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery as a Modern Haus Tumbuna

Sebastian Haraha

Chapter 9. Moving the Centre: Christianity, the Longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre

Alison Dundon

Chapter 10. Indigenous Responses to Political and Economic Challenges: the Babek Bema Yoma at Teptep, Papua New Guinea

Christin Kocher Schmid

Chapter 11. Can Museums become Indigenous? The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress and Contemporary Papua Nick Stanley

PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS MUSEUMS

Chapter 12. The Transformation of Cultural Centres in Papua New Guinea

Robert L. Welsch

Chapter 13. The Theoretical Future of Indigenous Museums: Concept and Practice

Christina Kreps

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley, Nick
Nick Stanley is Director of Research and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. He has worked on collections and display within museums of Oceanic materials both in Melanesia as well as Europe and North America. His current work is on the artistic production of the Asmat people in West Papua.