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For centuries, M ori treasures, or taonga, have been some of the most prized, popular and precious objects held in museums around the world. From Te Maori to Te Papa and beyond, initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last 30 years have continued to provide new models for m ...
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This is a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture from the 19th century to today - it traces the long journey from "curio to specimen, artefact, art and toanga (treasure). Ranging across museums, world fairs, fine art and tourism this worl fuses museum studies, a ...
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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 eventual ...
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Taking 20th-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, this work charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through material culture. It analyzes the insights that museum collections can provide into social relations.
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Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies to ask what role cultural insitutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.
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Eric Dorfman is Director of Whanganui Regional Museum in New Zealand. The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, and emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help defin ...
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An exploration of the concept of preserving heritage. It presents the conservation profession's code of ethics and discusses four significant contexts of museum conservation practice: science, professionalization, museum practice, and the relationship between museums and First Na ...
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Written in response to the increasing popularity of informal centres of learning, this text is designed to share ideas and approaches for teachers in schools as well as for curators and educators in museums and centres, in order to exploit museums' potential in popularising scien ...
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A collection of outstanding analyses of museums in the South Pacific, written by an international team of 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 ...
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Taking 20th-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, this work charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through material culture. It analyzes the insights that museum collections can provide into social relations.
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