1st Edition
Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Howard Morphy and Robyn McKenzie
Section I Making and Remaking of Collections
Chapter 1 Inalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor collection
Anna Edmundson
Chapter 2 The emergence of value in the process of the Sámi repatriation: Bååstede
Gro Ween
Chapter 3 Colonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentiment
Henrietta Lidchi and Nicole M. Hartwell
Chapter 4 Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging
Christopher Morton
Section II Creating Value – Inside and Outside the Museum
Chapter 5 Aboriginal secret-sacred objects, their values and future prospects
Jason M. Gibson
Chapter 6 Systems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex
Lissant Bolton
Chapter 7 Displaying, creating and mobilizing value in a museum exhibition: Pacific Currents in Cambridge
Anita Herle
Chapter 8 The revaluation of historical collections by source communities: the string figures of Yirrkala
Robyn McKenzie
Section III Engagement and Return
Chapter 9 ‘Go throw it in the river’, shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections
Joshua A. Bell
Chapter 10 Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste
Joanna Barrkman
Chapter 11 Digital/object/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context: have you socialized your clones?
Gwyneira Isaac
Section IV Indigenous Agency
Chapter 12 Value creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective
Jilda Andrews
Chapter 13 Yolŋu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections: the work and journey of Joseph Gumbula
Jessica de Largy Healy
Chapter 14 Creating value through cultural capital: ‘Witira Kanyila – "work as one to make it strong"’
Chrischona Schmidt
Index
Biography
Howard Morphy is Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University.
Robyn McKenzie is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University working on the Australian Research Council funded project The Relational Museum and its Objects: engaging Indigenous Australian communities with their distributed collections.
