Sharing Authority in the Museum: Distributed Objects, Reassembled Relationships

ISBN-13: 9780367606619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str.

Michelle Horwood

Opis

Indigenous Communities and Museum Collections provides the first contextualized study of a heritage assemblage, over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Proposing a method for indigenous engagement and making recommendations when forging relationships based around indigenous cultural heritage, the book shows how

Spis treści

Introduction: Worlds apart - rethinking indigenous engagement with museum collections

1. An assemblage: A collector, a collection, an indigenous community and a museum

2. Museum encounters: Ngā Paerangi travel to Oxford

3. Emergent themes from the dissassembly-reassembly of a heritage network

4. Working together

Conclusion

O autorze

Michelle Horwood is a teacher, scholar and museum curator. She has worked extensively in the heritage sector, as a curator, archaeologist and researcher, where connecting communities with their heritage has been the primary focus of her professional practice.