| Description |
1 online resource (323 pages) |
| Series |
Museum Meanings |
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Museum meanings.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: museum as process; 2 Indigenous ontologies, digital futures: plural provenances and the Kwakwaka'wakw Collection in Berlin and beyond; 3 Wampum unites us: digital access, interdisciplinarity and indigenous knowledge-situating the GRASAC knowledge sharing database; 4 Projectishare.com: sharing our past, collecting for the future; 5 Open access versus the culture of protocols |
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6 The veracity of form: transforming knowledges and their forms in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea7 Translating knowledge: uniting Alutiiq people with heritage information; 8 From entangled objects to engaged subjects: knowledge translation and cultural heritage regeneration; 9 The price of knowledge and the economies of heritage in Zuni, New Mexico; 10 Public history in Alexandra: facing the challenges of tourism and struggle heroization; 11 The Culture Bank: micro-credit, living objects and community development in West Africa; 12 Locating culture with/in a Ghanaian community |
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13 Communities and museums: equal partners?14 Challenging museum sustainability: governance, community participation and the fickle political climate in southern Luzon (Philippines) towns; 15 Ko Tawa: where are the glass cabinets?; 16 The interrogative museum; Index |
| Summary |
The museum has become a vital strategic space for negotiating ownership of and access to knowledges produced in local settings. Museum as Process presents community-engaged ""culture work"" of a group of scholars whose collaborative projects consider the social spaces between the museum and community and offer new ways of addressing the challenges of bridging the local and the global. Museum as Process explores a variety of strategies for engaging source communities in the process of translation and the collaborative mediation of cultural knowledges. Scholars from around the world reflect upon |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnological museums and collections -- Social aspects
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Museums and community.
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Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Social aspects
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Social aspects
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Intercultural communication.
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Communication in ethnology.
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Museums -- Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Communication in ethnology
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Intercultural communication
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Museums and community
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Museums -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317661931 |
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1317661931 |
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1322156980 |
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9781322156989 |
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9781315766935 |
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1315766930 |
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9781317661917 |
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1317661915 |
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9781317661924 |
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1317661923 |
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0415661560 |
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9780415661560 |
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0415661579 |
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9780415661577 |
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