South Pacific museums [[electronic resource] ] : experiments in culture / / edited by Chris Healy and Andrea Witcomb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451085303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clayton, Victoria, Australia, : Monash University ePress, c2006
• ISBN: 1-4294-1348-4; 0-9757475-9-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HealyChris; WitcombAndrea
• Disciplina: 069; 069.10995
• Soggetti: Museum techniques; Ethnology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title; Contents; 01 Experiments in culture: An introduction; 02 Reforming nationhood: The free market and biculturalism at Te Papa; 03 Museums of New Caledonia: The old, the new and the balance of the two; 04 Contested sites of identity and the cult of the new: The Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the constitution of culture in New Caledonia; 05 National Museum of Australia; 06 Pluralism and exhibition practice at the National Museum of Australia; 07 Melbourne Museum; 08 Civic laboratories: Museums, cultural objecthood and the governance of the social; 09 Museums as cultural guardians; 10 The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 11 There's so much in looking at those barks: Dja Dja Wurrung etchings 2004–05; 12 Gab Titui Cultural Centre; 13 The museum as cultural agent: The Vanuatu Cultural Centre extension worker program; 14 Tuning the museum: The harmonics of official culture; 15 Bunjilaka; 16 Very special treatment; 17 Hiroshima mon amour: Representation and violence in new museums of the Pacific; 18 T
• Sommario/riassunto: South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture, edited by Chris Healy and Andrea Witcomb, 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. Contributors are based in Australia, England, New Zealand and the USA and include: Tony Bennett, Lissant Bolton, Deidre Brown, Pamie Fung, Ross Gibson, Diane Losche, John Macarthur, Kylie Message, Naomi Stead, Mathew Trinca, Ian Wedde, Kir