The Makers And Making Of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections

Author : Nicolas Peterson,Lindy Allen,Louise Hamby
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780522855685

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The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections by Nicolas Peterson,Lindy Allen,Louise Hamby Pdf

This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in which any collection was created-the intellectual frameworks within which the collectors were working, their collecting practices, what they failed to collect, and what Aboriginal people withheld-is vital to understanding how any collection relates to the Aboriginal society from which it was derived. Once made, collections have had mixed fates: some have become the jewel of a museum's holdings, while others have been divided and dispersed across the world, or retained but neglected. The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.

Author : Susan Cochrane,Max Quanchi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Moira G. Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135632717

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Making Representations by Moira G. Simpson Pdf

Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and forging new relationships with communities. Simpson examines the increasing number of museums and cultural centres being established by indigenous and immigrant communities as they take control of the interpretive process and challenge the traditional role of the museum. Museum studies students and museum professionals will all find this a stimulating and valuable read.

Author : Susan Cochrane
Publisher : Fine Art Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015054137974

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Aboriginal Art Collections by Susan Cochrane Pdf

Aboriginal art collections : highlights from Australia's public museums and galleries is a survey of the indigenous collections of fourteen public museums and galleries in Australia.

Author : Tony Bennett,Deborah Stevenson,Fred Myers,Tamara Winikoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429590009

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The Australian Art Field by Tony Bennett,Deborah Stevenson,Fred Myers,Tamara Winikoff Pdf

This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises might mean for the future of the arts in Australia. Specific topics include national and international art markets; art practices in their broader social and political contexts; social relations and institutions and their role in contemporary Australian art; the policy regimes and funding programmes of Australian governments; and national and international art markets. In addition, the collection will pay detailed attention to the field of indigenous art and the work of Indigenous artists. This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, cultural studies, and Indigenous peoples.

Author : Gretchen M. Stolte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000182378

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art by Gretchen M. Stolte Pdf

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art explores the effects of Queensland government policies on urban First Nation artists. While such art has often been misinterpreted as derivative lesser copies of ‘true’ Indigenous works, this book unveils new histories and understandings about the mixed legacy left for Queensland Indigenous artists. Gretchen Stolte uses rich ethnographic detail to illuminate how both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists understand and express their heritage. She specifically focuses on artwork at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art studio in the Tropical North Queensland College of Technical and Further Education (TNQT TAFE), Cairns. Stolte's ethnography further develops methodologies in art history and anthropology by identifying additional methods for understanding how art is produced and meaning is created.

Author : Kerry Carrington,Russell Hogg,John Scott,Máximo Sozzo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319650210

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The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South by Kerry Carrington,Russell Hogg,John Scott,Máximo Sozzo Pdf

The first comprehensive collection of its kind, this handbook addresses the problem of knowledge production in criminology, redressing the global imbalance with an original focus on the Global South. Issues of vital criminological research and policy significance abound in the Global South, with important implications for South/North relations as well as global security and justice. In a world of high speed communication technologies and fluid national borders, empire building has shifted from colonising territories to colonising knowledge. The authors of this volume question whose voices, experiences, and theories are reflected in the discipline, and argue that diversity of discourse is more important now than ever before. Approaching the subject from a range of historical, theoretical, and social perspectives, this collection promotes the Global South not only as a space for the production of knowledge, but crucially, as a source of innovative research and theory on crime and justice. Wide-ranging in scope and authoritative in theory, this study will appeal to scholars, activists, policy-makers, and students from a wide range of social science disciplines from both the Global North and South, including criminal justice, human rights, and penology.

Author : Rebecca J. Conway
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781743327289

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Djalkiri by Rebecca J. Conway Pdf

“The patterns and designs were laid down on the country and in the minds of Yolŋu by the ancestral beings at the time of creation. They have been passed on through the generations from our great grandparents, to our grandparents, to our parents, to us. They are the reality of this country. They tell us all who we are.” — Djambawa Marawili AM Djalkiri are “footprints" – ancestral imprints on the landscape that provide the Yolŋu people of eastern Arnhem Land with their philosophical foundations. This book describes how Yolŋu artists and communities keep these foundations strong, and how they have worked with museums to develop a collaborative, community-led approach to the collection and display of their artwork. It includes contributions from Yolŋu elders and artists as well as Indigenous and non-Indigenous historians and curators. Together they explore how the relationship between communities and museums has changed over time. From the early 20th century, anthropologists and other collectors acquired artworks and objects and took photographs in Arnhem Land that became part of collections at the University of Sydney. Later generations of Yolŋu have sought out these materials and, with museum curators, proposed a new type of relationship, based on a deeper respect for Yolŋu intellectual frameworks and a commitment to their central role in curation. This book tells some of their stories. Featuring over 300 colour images, Djalkiri is published in conjunction with a largescale exhibition of Yolŋu art and culture at the University of Sydney’s new Chau Chak Wing Museum, opening in November 2020. Spanning almost 100 years of our shared history, these collections can expand our understanding of the past and help us to shape the future.

Author : Ian J. McNiven,Bruno David
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190095611

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea by Ian J. McNiven,Bruno David Pdf

65,000 years ago, modern humans arrived in Australia, having navigated more than 100 km of sea crossing from southeast Asia. Since then, the large continental islands of Australia and New Guinea, together with smaller islands in between, have been connected by land bridges and severed again as sea levels fell and rose. Along with these fluctuations came changes in the terrestrial and marine environments of both land masses. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and assembles the latest findings and ideas on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region, the world's largest island-continent. In 42 new chapters written by 77 contributors, it presents and explores the archaeological evidence to weave stories of colonisation; megafaunal extinctions; Indigenous architecture; long-distance interactions, sometimes across the seas; eel-based aquaculture and the development of techniques for the mass-trapping of fish; occupation of the High Country, deserts, tropical swamplands and other, diverse land and waterscapes; and rock art and symbolic behaviour. Together with established researchers, a new generation of archaeologists present in this Handbook one, authoritative text where Australia-New Guinea archaeology now lies and where it is heading, promising to shape future directions for years to come.

Author : Howard Morphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351339544

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Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols by Howard Morphy Pdf

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while 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.

Author : Phil Gordon,Kathy Patrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0642221154

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Australian Museum's Aboriginal Collections by Phil Gordon,Kathy Patrick Pdf

Author : Louise Hamby,Lindy Allen,Stuart Porteous,Lapulung Dhamarrandji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646959344

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Makarrata by Louise Hamby,Lindy Allen,Stuart Porteous,Lapulung Dhamarrandji Pdf

This book contains the information about the meeting of heads of cultural institutions with the Yolngu of Milingimbi held in August 2016. The event had its conceptual format in the traditional peace making ceremony of Arnhem Land. An objective of the event was to bring about understanding between the two groups over the cultural heritage of theirs held in museums and other institutions around the world. It was a collaboration between researchers on an ARC grant between the Australian National University and Museum Victoria and the people of Milingimbi.

Author : Australian Museum,Australian Museum (Sydney) Division of Anthropology,Peter White,Phil Gordon,Yvonne Carrillo,Australian Museum. Aboriginal Heritage Unit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0731088921

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Australian Museum's Aboriginal Collections by Australian Museum,Australian Museum (Sydney) Division of Anthropology,Peter White,Phil Gordon,Yvonne Carrillo,Australian Museum. Aboriginal Heritage Unit Pdf

Author : Australian Museum,Kathy Patrick,Samantha Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0642221111

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Australian Museum's Aboriginal Collections by Australian Museum,Kathy Patrick,Samantha Simmons Pdf

Author : Vanessa Russ
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000398687

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A History of Aboriginal Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales by Vanessa Russ Pdf

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This process occurred as the social histories of Australia expanded and recognised Aboriginal people, through wars and political shifts, and as international organisations began placing pressure on nation states to expand, diversify, and respect multicultural perspectives. This book explores a state art institution as a case study to consider these complex narratives through a single history of Aboriginal art from early colonisation until today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and Indigenous studies.