Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Maaori objects, predominantly originating from the Ngaa Paerangi tribe, housed in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum,...

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Main Author:	Horwood, Michelle (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2019
Series:	Museums in focus Museums in focus
Subjects:	Pitt Rivers Museum Ethnological museums and collections / Great Britain Museums and indigenous peoples / Great Britain
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Maaori objects, predominantly originating from the Ngaa Paerangi tribe, housed in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, the book examines thenuances of cross-cultural interactions between an indigenous community and an anthropological museum. Analysis centres on the legacy of historic ethnographic collecting on indigenous communities and museums, and the impact of different value systems and world views on access to heritage objects. Questions of curatorial responsibilities and authority over access rights are explored. Proposing a method for indigenous engagement to address this legacy, and making recommendations to guide participants when forging relationships based around indigenous cultural heritage, Michelle Horwood shows how to negotiate power and authority within these assemblages. She argues that by doing this and acknowledging and communicating our difficult histories, together we can move from collaborative approaches to shared authority and indigenous self-determination, progressing the task of decolonising the museum. Addressing a salient, complex issue by way of a grounded case study, Sharing Authority in the Museum is key reading for museum practitioners working with ethnographic collections, as well as scholars and students working in the fields of museum, heritage, Indigenous or cultural studies. It should also be of great interest to indigenous communities wishing to take the lessons learned from Ngaa Paerangi's experiences further within their own spheres of museum engagement
Item Description:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 13, 2018)
Physical Description:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9781351251105 1351251104 9781351251129 1351251120 9781351251112 1351251112 9781351251099 1351251090