Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses / / Philipp Schorch.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 p.) :; 8 color, 34 b&w illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- PART I. BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP MUSEUM, HAWAI‘I -- 1. I Kū Mau Mau: Restoring Hawaiian Intent, Presence, and Authority -- 2. Rethinking Temporalities: Curatorial Conversations, Material Languages, and Indigenous Skills -- PART II. MUSEO ANTROPOLÓGICO PADRE SEBASTIÁN ENGLERT, RAPA NUI -- 3. Cross-Cultural Journeys: Informants, Collections, and Communities with Cristián Moreno Pakarati and Mara Mulrooney -- 4 . Curating an Island, Curing Rapa Nui -- PART III. MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND -- 5. Materializing German-Sāmoan Colonial Legacies with Sean Mallon and Nina Tonga -- 6. “Anthropology’s Interlocutors” and the Ethnographic Condition -- Conclusion: An Ethnographic Kaleidoscope -- Afterword: Regenerating Maka by Ty P. Kāwika Tengan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780824883010 9783110738230 9783110696295 9783110704655 9783110704785 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110696301 9783110689624 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780824883010?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Philipp Schorch. |