This book brings together hitherto uncollected work on one of the most important developments in museology in the past century: collaborative research involving museums and members of ethnographic source communities, and the development of a new curatorial praxis which incorporates source community needs and perspectives. Using case studies of research projects as well as overview essays exploring the issues, common problems, and lessons of this type of research, this book will provide the first overview of work in this emerging field.

List of illustrations

ix

Notes on contributors

xi

Acknowledgements

xv

Introduction

1

(16)

LAURA PEERS and ALISON K. BROWN

PART 1 Museums and contact work

17

(64)

Introduction

19

(9)

TRUDY NICKS

1 Yup'ik elders in museums: fieldwork turned on its head

28

(14)

ANN FIENUP-RIORDAN

2 The object in view: Aborigines, Melanesians, and museums

42

(13)

LISSANT BOLTON

3 The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms: collaborating with a community

55

(17)

EITHNE NIGHTINGALE and DEBORAH SWALLOW

4 Integrating Native views into museum procedures: hope and practice at the National Museum of the American Indian

72

(9)

NANCY B. ROSOFF

PART 2 Talking visual histories

81

(72)

Introduction

83

(17)

ELIZABETH EDWARDS

5 Taking the photographs home: the recovery of a Maori history

100

(11)

JUDITH BINNEY and GILLIAN CHAPLIN

6 Looking to see: reflections on visual repatriation in the Purari Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

111

(12)

JOSHUA A. BELL

7 Remembering our namesakes: audience reactions to archival film of King Island, Alaska

123

(13)

DEANNA PANIATAAQ KINGSTON

8 Snapshots on the dreaming: photographs of the past and present

136

(17)

JOHN E. STANTON

PART 3 Community collaboration in exhibitions: toward a dialogic paradigm

153

(89)

Introduction

155

(16)

RUTH B. PHILLIPS

9 How to decorate a house: the renegotiation of cultural representations at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology

171

(10)

MICHAEL M. AMES

10 Curating African Worlds

181

(13)

ANTHONY SHELTON

11 Objects, agency and museums: continuing dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge

194

(14)

ANITA HERLE

12 Transforming archaeology through practice: strategies for collaborative archaeology and the Community Archaeology Project at Quseir, Egypt

208

(19)

STEPHANIE MOSER, DARREN GLAZIER, JAMES E. PHILLIPS, LAMPA NASR EL NEMR, MOHAMMED SALER MOUSA, RASCHA MOATTY NASR MESH, SUSAN RICHARDSON, ANDREW CONNER and MICHAEL SEYMOUR

13 Glenbow's Blackfoot Gallery: working towards co-existence

227

(15)

GERALD T. CONATY

Afterword: beyond the frame

242

(10)

PAUL TAPSELL

Bibliography

252

(22)

Index

274

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