1st Edition
Sharing Authority in the Museum Distributed objects, reassembled relationships
By Michelle Horwood
Copyright 2019
144 Pages
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Routledge
142 Pages
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Routledge
142 Pages
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Routledge
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Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Māori objects, predominantly originating from the Ngā Paerangi tribe, housed in Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the book examines thenuances of cross-cultural interactions between an indigenous community and an... Read more
Introduction: Worlds apart - rethinking indigenous engagement with museum collections
1. An assemblage: A collector, a collection, an indigenous community and a museum
2. Museum encounters: Ngā Paerangi travel to Oxford
3. Emergent themes from the dissassembly-reassembly of a heritage network
4. Working together
Conclusion
Biography
Michelle Horwood is a teacher, scholar and museum curator. She has worked extensively in the heritage sector, as a curator, archaeologist and researcher, where connecting communities with their heritage has been the primary focus of her professional practice.
