Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value

ISBN-13: 9780367688486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 282 str.

Howard Morphy; Robyn McKenzie

Opis

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes.

Spis treści

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; Section I Making and Remaking of Collections; Chapter 1 Inalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor collection; Chapter 2 The emergence of value in the process of the Sámi repatriation: Bååstede; Chapter 3 Colonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentiment; Chapter 4 Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging; Section II Creating Value – Inside and Outside the Museum; Chapter 5 Aboriginal secret-sacred objects, their values and future prospects; Chapter 6 Systems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex; Chapter 7 Displaying, creating and mobilizing value in a museum exhibition: Pacific Currents in Cambridge; Chapter 8 The revaluation of historical collections by source communities: the string figures of Yirrkala; Section III Engagement and Return; Chapter 9 ‘Go throw it in the river’, shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections; Chapter 10 Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste; Chapter 11 Digital/object/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context: have you socialized your clones?; Section IV Indigenous Agency; Chapter 12 Value creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective; Chapter 13 Yolŋu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections: the work and journey of Joseph Gumbula; Chapter 14 Creating value through cultural capital: ‘Witira Kanyila – "work as one to make it strong"'; Index.