South Pacific Museums

Author : Chris Healy,Andrea Witcomb
Publisher : Monash University ePress
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780975747599

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South Pacific Museums by Chris Healy,Andrea Witcomb Pdf

South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture is a collection of outstanding analyses of museums in the South Pacific, written by cultural, museum and architectural critics, and historians. A series of snapshots introduce the reader to key museums in the region and longer essays explore these museums in broad terms.Over the last 50 years, museums have been regarded by many scholars and cultural critics as archaic institutions far from the cutting edge of cultural innovation. This judgement is being proved wrong across the globe, with innovative museums staking out new territory. Nowhere is this more striking than in the South Pacific where new and redeveloped institutions have included the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum of Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Museum of Sydney, the Gab Titui Cultural Centre in the Torres Strait, the Auckland Museum, the Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre.South Pacific Museums make sense of these museums as part of the complex field of heritage, where national economies meet global tourism, cities brand themselves, and indigeneity articulates with colonialism. The effect is one of cultural experimentation. Part One, 'New Museums', introduces three different museums in distinctive national contexts - Te Papa, the Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the National Museum of Australia. Essays in this part grapple with the role of these museums in the nation at particular historical moments under specific political pressures. Part Two, 'New Knowledges', documents practices and exhibitions at the point of tension between indigenous and non-indigenous interests in the museum. Part three, 'New Experiences', explores the ways in which museums in the South Pacific are producing that ineffable cultural phenomenon - experience.

Author : Soroi Marepo Eoe,Pamela Swadling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art centers
ISBN : UOM:39015024706239

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Museums and Cultural Centres in the Pacific by Soroi Marepo Eoe,Pamela Swadling Pdf

Author : Susan Cochrane,Max Quanchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443871006

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Hunting the Collectors by Susan Cochrane,Max Quanchi Pdf

This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures. The essays suggest that the custodial role is not fixed and immutable but fluctuates with the perceived importance of the collection, which in turn fluctuates with the level of national interest in the Pacific neighbourhood. This cyclical rise and fall of Australian interest in the Pacific Islands means many of the valuable early collections in state and later national repositories and institutions have been rarely exhibited or published. But, as the authors note, enthusiastic museum anthropologists, curators, collection managers and university-based scholars across Australia, and worldwide, have persisted with research on material collected in the Pacific. This volume is a very important one for anyone studying the art and material culture of the Pacific. It focuses on collections now in Australia. Even those well versed in museum collections from the Pacific will learn about many important but little-known collectors as well as better-known figures like the anthropologists F. E. Williams and Thomas Farrell, the husband of Queen Emma. This will be a treat for students and specialist alike. —Professor Robert L. Welsch, University of Dartmouth

Author : David Stanley
Publisher : David Stanley
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN : 1566910404

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South Pacific Handbook by David Stanley Pdf

Whether it's the legends about breadfruit trees or ghosts inhabiting inland Tahiti, the endangered delicacies to avoid or the gift-giving protocol when invited to a local's home, how to tour a vanilla plantation on Raiatea or when to find the Nouméa flame trees "catch fire" in hues of red and orange, South Pacific Handbook covers everything about this region of boundless ocean and scarce land. Drawing on two decades of editions and incorporating the comments of countless previous readers, this user-friendly guide extends beyond the hot spots and steers readers off the beaten path throughout Polynesia and Melanesia.

Author : Paul Stover Wingert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015262101

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An Outline Guide to the Art of the South Pacific by Paul Stover Wingert Pdf

Author : Nick Stanley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845455965

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The Future of Indigenous Museums by Nick Stanley Pdf

Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. This book looks to the future of museum practice through examining how these museums have evolved to incorporate the present and the future in the display of culture.

Author : Christine Price
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015024074968

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Made in the South Pacific by Christine Price Pdf

Describes the arts of the people of the Pacific islands both in the past and today.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Eric Kjellgren
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9781588392381

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Oceania by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Eric Kjellgren Pdf

Includes detailed chapters devoted to each of the five major cultural regions of the Pacific: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the islands of Southeast Asia.

Author : St. Louis Art Museum,Musée du Quai Branly Paris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : 2915133433

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New Ireland by St. Louis Art Museum,Musée du Quai Branly Paris Pdf

Author : Philipp Schorch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824881177

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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses by Philipp Schorch Pdf

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices in three Pacific museums located at the corners of the so-called Polynesian triangle: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; and Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui. Since their inception, ethnographic museums have influenced academic and public imaginations of other cultural-geographic regions, and the often resulting Euro-Americentric projection of anthropological imaginations has come under intense pressure, as seen in recent debates and conflicts around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany. At the same time, (post)colonial renegotiations in former European and American colonies have initiated dramatic changes to anthropological approaches through Indigenous museum practices. This book shapes a dialogue between Euro-Americentric myopia and Oceanic perspectives by offering historically informed, ethnographic insights into Indigenous museum practices grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmologies. In doing so, it employs Oceanic lenses that help to reframe Pacific collections in, and the production of public understandings through, ethnographic museums in Europe and the Americas. By offering insights into Indigenous museologies across Oceania, the coauthors seek to recalibrate ethnographic museums, collections, and practices through Indigenous Oceanic approaches and perspectives. This, in turn, should assist any museum scholar and professional in rethinking and redoing their respective institutional settings, intellectual frameworks, and museum processes when dealing with Oceanic affairs; and, more broadly, in doing the “epistemic work” needed to confront “coloniality,” not only as a political problem or ethical obligation, but “as an epistemology, as a politics of knowledge.” A noteworthy feature is the book’s layered coauthorship and multi-vocality, drawing on a collaborative approach that has put the (widespread) philosophical commitment to dialogical inquiry into (seldom) practice by systematically co-constituting ethnographic knowledge. Further, the book shapes an “ethnographic kaleidoscope,” proposing the metaphor of the kaleidoscope as a way of encouraging fluid ethnographic engagements to avoid the impulse to solidify and enclose differences, and remain open to changing ethnographic meanings, positions, performances, and relationships. The coauthors collaboratively mobilize Oceanic eyes, bodies, and sovereignties, thus enacting an ethnographic kaleidoscopic process and effect aimed at refocusing ethnographic museums through Oceanic lenses.

Author : Hudson River Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:3346930

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Arts of the South Pacific by Hudson River Museum Pdf

Author : Bryony Onciul,Michelle L. Stefano,Stephanie Hawke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781783271658

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Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities by Bryony Onciul,Michelle L. Stefano,Stephanie Hawke Pdf

International, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the key question of community engagement in theory and practice in a diverse range of heritage settings.

Author : Laurence Gourievidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317684886

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Museums and Migration by Laurence Gourievidis Pdf

Recent decades have seen migration history and issues increasingly featured in museums. Museums and Migration explores the ways in which museum spaces - local, regional, national - have engaged with the history of migration, including internal migration, emigration and immigration. It presents the latest innovative research from academics and museum practitioners and offers a comparative perspective on a global scale bringing to light geo- and socio-political specificities. It includes an extensive range of international contributions from Europe, Asia, South America as well as settler societies such as Canada and Australia. Museums and Migration charts and enlarges the developing body of research which concentrates on the analysis of the representation of migration in relation to the changing character of museums within society, examining their civic role and their function as key public arenas within civil society. It also aims to inform debates focusing on the way museums interact with processes of political and societal changes, and examining their agency and relationship to identity construction, community involvement, policy positions and discourses, but also ethics and moralities.

Author : Murray G. Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136579608

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Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame by Murray G. Phillips Pdf

We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum in London, the Croke Park Museum in Dublin, and the Whyte Museum in Banff. These institutions are examined in a broad context of understanding sport museums as an identifiable genre in the "museum age", and more specifically in terms of how the sporting past is represented in these museums. Historians explain, debate and critique sport museums with the intention of understanding how this important form of public history represents sport for audiences who see museums as institutions that are inherently reliable and trustworthy.

Author : Robert Hudson,Shannon Woodcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000595116

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Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation by Robert Hudson,Shannon Woodcock Pdf

Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation, and cross-cultural community engagement in a dynamic Koori museum. Grounded in the fact that Gunai Kurnai people have never ceded sovereignty, the text reorients dominant temporal and colonial approaches of museum studies to document and theorise Gunai Kurnai self-presentation and community engagement in the Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place. Researched and co-authored by the Cultural Manager of the Keeping Place, Gunai Kurnai Monero Ngarigo man Robert Hudson, and white Historian Shannon Woodcock, the book traces the temporal, social, and cultural considerations of the Elders who curated the permanent exhibition in the early 1990s. Discussing community management of a collection growing through the ongoing repatriation of tools, art, and Ancestor remains, the text also explores how Robert Hudson engages with visitors to the Keeping Place and local colonial history museums, and theorises the power of Gunai Kurnai work with individuals and institutions in the small museum context. Finally, Hudson and Woodcock demonstrate that the Keeping Place articulates sophisticated Gunai Kurnai-grounded methodologies of museum practice in relation to international critical Indigenous studies scholarship. Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation provides a vital case study of an Indigenous museum space written from an inside perspective. As such, the book will be essential reading for scholars and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, Indigenous peoples, decolonisation, race, anthropology, culture, and history.