The Centennial History of the Auckland Institute and Museum

The Centennial History of the Auckland Institute and Museum
Title The Centennial History of the Auckland Institute and Museum PDF eBook
Author Arthur William Baden Powell
Publisher
Pages 100
Release 1967
Genre Museums
ISBN

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Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum

Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum
Title Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum PDF eBook
Author Auckland Institute and Museum
Publisher
Pages 124
Release 1997
Genre Science
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South Pacific Museums

South Pacific Museums
Title South Pacific Museums PDF eBook
Author Chris Healy
Publisher Monash University ePress
Pages 233
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 0975747592

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South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture is a collection of outstanding analyses of museums in the South Pacific, written by 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 broad terms.Over the last 50 years, museums have been regarded by many scholars and cultural critics as archaic institutions far from the cutting edge of cultural innovation. This judgement is being proved wrong across the globe, with innovative museums staking out new territory. Nowhere is this more striking than in the South Pacific where new and redeveloped institutions have included the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum of Australia, the Melbourne Museum, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Museum of Sydney, the Gab Titui Cultural Centre in the Torres Strait, the Auckland Museum, the Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the Vanuatu Cultural Centre.South Pacific Museums make sense of these museums as part of the complex field of heritage, where national economies meet global tourism, cities brand themselves, and indigeneity articulates with colonialism. The effect is one of cultural experimentation. Part One, 'New Museums', introduces three different museums in distinctive national contexts - Te Papa, the Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the National Museum of Australia. Essays in this part grapple with the role of these museums in the nation at particular historical moments under specific political pressures. Part Two, 'New Knowledges', documents practices and exhibitions at the point of tension between indigenous and non-indigenous interests in the museum. Part three, 'New Experiences', explores the ways in which museums in the South Pacific are producing that ineffable cultural phenomenon - experience.

Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange

Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange
Title Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange PDF eBook
Author Amiria Henare
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 356
Release 2005-06-17
Genre Art
ISBN 9780521835916

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Amiria Henare explores the role of material cultural research in anthropology and related disciplines from the late eighteenth century to the present.

Museums and empire

Museums and empire
Title Museums and empire PDF eBook
Author John M. MacKenzie
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 303
Release 2017-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 1526118327

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Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyses museum histories in thirteen major centres in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and South-East Asia, setting them into the economic and social contexts of the cities and colonies in which they were located. Written in a lively and informative style, it also touches upon the history of many other museums in Britain and other territories of the Empire. A number of key themes emerge from its pages; the development of elites within colonial towns and cities; the emergence of the full range of cultural institutions associated with this; and the reception and modification of the key scientific ideas of the age. It will be essential reading for students and academics concerned with museum studies and imperial history and to a wider public devoted to the cause of museums and heritage

Records of the Auckland Museum

Records of the Auckland Museum
Title Records of the Auckland Museum PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 566
Release 2003
Genre Science
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Exhibiting Maori

Exhibiting Maori
Title Exhibiting Maori PDF eBook
Author Conal McCarthy
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 324
Release 2024-11-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1040288499

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This richly illustrated book presents a comprehensive assessment of the display of Maori culture from the nineteenth century to today. In doing so, Exhibiting Maori traces the long journey from curio to specimen, artefact, art and taonga (treasure). Drawing on extensive and groundbreaking research, Exhibiting Maori reveals for the first time the remarkable story of Maori resistance to, involvement in, and eventual capture of the display of their culture.Ranging across museums, world fairs, fine art and tourism, Exhibiting Maori fuses museum studies, anthropology, and visual and material culture to uncover a history of active Maori engagement with the colonial culture of display.