Returns and Reconnections
Engaging Indigenous and Community Relationships with the Deep Past
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Returns and Reconnections
Engaging Indigenous and Community Relationships with the Deep Past
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Description
This open access collection explores the many ways in which Indigenous and descent communities in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific form connections with the deep past by engaging with their material heritage.
Featuring nine chapters and six responses by leading and emerging international archaeologists, historians, museum researchers, and museum practitioners, all of which are designed or co-designed in collaboration with Indigenous activists and knowledge holders, the book makes space for different concepts of time and history, as well as for diverse ways of talking about and using the past in the present. Together, these reflections speak to how the actions and legacies of collectors and researchers have affected and continue to affect Indigenous relationships with the deep past,. Ultimately, it points to how such work can better shape opportunities for people today to engage with the material traces of their ancestors.
For its timely interventions into the key concerns in museums and heritage theory and practice, this is a go-to resources for researchers, postgraduates, and practitioners interested in Indigenous studies, heritage studies, and postcolonial studies.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian National University.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Ben Silverstein, Paul Lane, Mike Jones
Part I: Troubling collaborations
2. Great Zimbabwe and spirit mediums: are community and archaeological concerns reconcilable?
Shadreck Chirikure and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya
3. Deep Pasts in Recent Times: Excavating Archaeological Human Remains in Post-Genocide Rwanda
André Ntagwabira, Maurice Mugabowagahunde, Rebecca Watts and John Giblin
4. The time for knowing together: a response
Joost Fontein
5. Excavating in an ethical landscape: a response
Charlotte Joy
Part II: Returning (to) collections
6. Reconnecting with Aboriginal objects from the coastal Sydney region: distributed collections, colonial histories, and contemporary communities
Maria Nugent, Paul Irish, Gaye Sculthorpe, Daniel Simpson, Lissant Bolton, Caroline Cartwright, Nicholas Thomas, Noeleen Timbery
7. Archival Return, Ancestral Presence, and the 'Igbo Deep Present' in Southern Nigeria
George Emeka Agbo, Paul Basu and Glory Chika-Kanu
8. The Right to Know and the Right to No: First Nations' Rights, Reconnections and Refusals in Archival Collections
Lauren Booker
9. Framing dynamic object histories – working with the complexity: a response
Mariko Smith
10. The next stories need to be made carefully
Julia Hurst
Part III: Representing community knowledges
11. Material Witnesses: The Kuwae eruption and the currency of the past on Tongoa
Chris Ballard, Sandrine Bessis, Alice Kaloran and Maëlle Calandra
12. Re-examining traumatic pasts and centring community voices within and beyond the limits of 'conventional' museum spaces
Bongani Ndhlovu, Annelize Kotze and Nichodimas Cooper
13. Basket in the Bookshelf, Shield in the Den: A Case of Indigenous Curatorship in North Queensland, Australia
Tahnee Innes
14. Knowledge of value: a response
Dacia Viejo Rose
15. The time for co-creation and co-curation: a response
Laura Rademaker, Ursula Frederick and Susan Lowish
16. Afterword: Materializing Histories
Ann McGrath
Product details
| Published | Feb 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350526945 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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