Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Experiences of Return in Central Australia

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Jason M. Gibson

Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Experiences of Return in Central Australia

Jason M. Gibson

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Routledge
14 June 2023

Museums & museology; Cultural studies; Indigenous peoples; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Museums in Focus

Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians.

Combining a critical examination of the making of these collections with an assessment of their contemporary significance, the book exposes the opportunities and challenges involved in returning cultural heritage for the purposes of maintaining, preserving or reviving cultural practice. Drawing on ethnographic work undertaken with Aboriginal communities and the institutions that hold significant collections, the author reveals important new insights about the impact of return on communities. Technological advances, combined with the push towards decolonising methodologies in Indigenous research, have resulted in considerable interest in ensuring that collections of cultural value are returned to Indigenous communities. Gibson challenges the rhetoric of museum repatriation, arguing that, while it has been tremendously important to advancing Indigenous interest, it is too often over-simplified.

Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage offers a timely, critical perspective on current museum practice and its place within processes of cultural production and transmission. The book is sure to resonate in other international contexts where questions about Indigenous re-engagement and decolonisation strategies are being debated and will be of interest to students and scholars of Museum Studies, Indigenous Studies and Anthropology.

By: Jason M. Gibson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9780367745097
ISBN 10: 0367745097
Series: Museums in Focus
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 14 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Re-engagements with Indigenous Collections After there Return; 2. Indigenous Appropriations of Anthropological Photography and Collections; 3. Putting Objects Back in Place; 4. Digital Returns of Anmatyerr Ceremonial Performance and New Collecting; 5. Transformative Collaborations in Australian Ethnographic Collections; 6. Conclusion: Reflections on Return

Jason M. Gibson is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in cultural heritage and museum studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal custodians throughout Australia on history, museum, and heritage-related projects and has conducted collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in Central Australia for the past two decades. His first book Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection (SUNY Press, 2020) was awarded the Council of Museum Anthropology Book Prize and the Australian Historical Associations’ WK Hancock Prize.