1st Edition
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Experiences of Return in Central Australia
1. Introduction: Re-engagements with Indigenous Collections After there Return; 2. Indigenous Appropriations of Anthropological Photography and Collections; 3. Putting Objects Back in Place; 4. Digital Returns of Anmatyerr Ceremonial Performance and New Collecting; 5. Transformative Collaborations in Australian Ethnographic Collections; 6. Conclusion: Reflections on Return
Biography
Jason M. Gibson is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in cultural heritage and museum studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal custodians throughout Australia on history, museum, and heritage-related projects and has conducted collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in Central Australia for the past two decades. His first book Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection (SUNY Press, 2020) was awarded the Council of Museum Anthropology Book Prize and the Australian Historical Associations’ WK Hancock Prize.
