Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "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."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "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…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Covers European museums "in Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Tartary, Hungary."

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Covers European museums "in Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Tartary, Hungary."

Description: "Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters into a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of its collections into an infinite future, whilst also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value material objects have to different 'local' communities - the museum and the source community - and the value creation processes with which they are entangled. The focus on values and value brings the issue of repatriation and access into a dialogue between the two locals, questioning who has access to collections and whose values are taken into consideration. Placing the museum itself firmly at the centre of the debate, Morphy posits that museums constitute a kind of 'local' embedded in a trajectory of value. Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols challenges aspects of postcolonial theory that position museums in the past by presenting an argument that places relationships with communities as central to the future of museums. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, cultural studies and history"-- Provided by publisher

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters into a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of its collections into an infinite future, whilst also…

Description: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately connected with the supervision of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca from the Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia. Notable guests at this consulate included the formidable Dutch Islamicist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, visiting Arabia in 1884-1885. With the invaluable help of local Muslims, Dutch collectors tried to capture the essence of what they regarded as an 'authentic' Oriental culture in a period when Arabia was already looking towards modernity. These extensive collections are now preserved at the Leiden Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde, est. 1837) and Leiden University (founded 1575). Together, they allow a glimpse into a colourful and vibrant society, one virtually vanished today under ever-growing numbers of pilgrims, changing political and religious allegiances and sudden economic prosperity.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Includes some New Zealand content.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Includes some New Zealand content.

Description: "During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This book takes the collection he made as its subject, and explores how through its acquisition, Firth ceased to be a stranger and became a respected figure incorporated into Tikopia society. The objects were originally viewed by Firth as data in a scientific record of a culture, and evidence challenging the belief that complex economic transactions could only take place in a recognizable market economy. Elizabeth Bonshek, however, revisits the collection's documentation and the ethnography of Tikopia with a different intent in mind: to highlight the social relations the collecting process illuminates and to acknowledge Tikopia voices, past and present. She argues that Firth downplayed the impact of contact with outsiders - whalers, traders and missionaries calling for the abandonment of the Work of the Gods - yet this context is vital for understanding why local people actively contributed to his collecting and research. She follows the life of the collection after leaving the island in institutions that attributed different meanings to its significance, in a failed repatriation request and in a new role in the transmission of 'cultural heritage' along with Firth's writings. She concludes that Firth's exchanges of objects with other high-ranking men were culturally appropriate to the social values dominant in that time and place. Indeed, she suggests that while Firth was acquiring Tikopia artefacts, the Tikopia were perhaps acquiring him."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This book takes the collection he…

Description: "'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past. Much of what we work with today in ethnographic museum collections testifies to that conviction. Post-structural thinking brought about a far-reaching deconstruction of the authentic. It came to be recognized that both far-away communities and the deep past can only be discussed when seen as desires, constructions and inventions. Notwithstanding this undressing of the ways in which people portray their cultural surroundings and past, claims of authenticity and quests for authentication remain omnipresent. This book explores the authentic in contemporary ethnographic museums, as it persists in dialogues with stakeholders, and how museums portray themselves."--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: "The bibliography deals specifically with the study, treatment and prevention of damage to ethnographic materials. It includes references to conservation case histories, research reports and information on the handling, storage, display, and transport of ethnographic objects as well as on education and training in the development of ethnographic conservation as a speciality within the conservation profession."--introduction.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The bibliography deals specifically with the study, treatment and prevention of damage to ethnographic materials. It includes references to conservation case histories,…