Liberating Culture: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage PreservationUsing examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation is transforming conventional museum practice. Liberating Culture explores the similarities and differences between Western and non-Western approaches to objects, museums, and curation, revealing how what is culturally appropriate in one context may not be in another. For those studying museum culture across the world, this book is essential reading. |
Contents
liberating culture | 1 |
2 The Eurocentric museum model in the nonEuropean world | 20 |
3 Indigenous models of museums curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation | 46 |
Native Americans and cultural restitution | 79 |
5 Museums culture and development | 114 |
emerging paradigms for museological practice | 145 |
Notes | 161 |
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adat American Indian anthropology approaches artifacts Borneo Central Kalimantan ceremonies Clavir collections colonial community members community’s concept concerned created cultural centers cultural conservation cultural contexts cultural heritage management cultural heritage preservation cultural property curatorial practices Dayak devel opment Directorate of Museums display diversity East Kalimantan ecomuseum ethnographic example exhibit functions Gogodala heirlooms human remains indigenous models indigenous museums Indonesian museum institutions inter jars Kaharingan Kayan Mentarang Kenyah knowledge Long Pujungan longhouse lumbung Maori material culture models of museums modern museological museological behavior museologists Museum Balanga museum development museum model museum practices museum professionals museum staff museums and cultural museums and curatorial NAGPRA National Museum Native American Native communities NMAI non-western Nuu-chah-nulth Papua New Guinea people’s professional museum programs protect provincial museums pusaka pusoko religious repatriation ritual role sacred objects Simpson social society taonga tion traditional tribal museums tribes UNESCO village western museum Zuni