Sharing knowledge & cultural heritage : first nations of the Americas : studies in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from Greenland, North and South America : proceedings of an expert meeting National Museum of Ethnology Leiden, The Netherlands / / editors, Laura Van Broekhoven, Cunera Buijs, Pieter Hovens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827313203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, : Sidestone Press, c2010
• ISBN: 90-8890-181-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Collana: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; ; no. 39
• Altri autori (Persone): BuijsCunera; HovensPieter; BroekhovenLaura N. K. van <1972->
• Disciplina: 305.80074
• Soggetti: Ethnological museums and collections; Intercultural communication; Indians of North America - Antiquities - Collectors and collecting; Indians of South America - Antiquities - Collectors and collecting; Indigenous peoples - Antiquities - Collectors and collecting - Greenland
• 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: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Related Collections -- Curators, Collections, and Inuit Communities -- Speaking Images -- Sharing Knowledge and Cultural Heritage -- The Repatriation of Greenland's Cultural Heritage from Denmark to Greenland -- The Greenland Collections -- Collaborations with Native Peoples in the American Southwest and Midwest: 1967-2007 -- Conservation's Role in Building Relationships with Source Communities -- Leiden Links and Liaisons -- A Place for Things to be Alive -- Yesterday's Knowledge, Tomorrow's Future -- Cultural Centerss in the Amerindian Villages in Southern Suriname -- Sharing Cultural Heritage -- Afterword: 'Nothing is Impossible' -- Appendix: Discussions.
• Sommario/riassunto: Sharing Knowledge & Cultural Heritage (SK&CH), First Nations of the ; Americas, testifies to the growing commitment of museum professionals in the twenty-first century to share collections with the descendants of people and communities from whom the collections originated. Thanks to collection histories and the documenting of relations with particular indigenous communities, it is well known that until as recently as the 1970's, museum doors - except for a handful of cases - were shut to indigenous peoples. This volume is the result of an ""expert meeting"" held in November 2007 at the National M