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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses (Hardcover)
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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses (Hardcover)
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Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a
collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum
practices in three Pacific museums located at the corners of the
so-called Polynesian triangle: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum,
Hawai'i; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; and Museo
Antropologico Padre Sebastian Englert, Rapa Nui. Since their
inception, ethnographic museums have influenced academic and public
imaginations of other cultural-geographic regions, often resulting
Euro-Americentric projection of anthropological imaginations has
come under intense pressure, as seen in recent debates and
conflicts around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany. At the same
time, (post)colonial renegotiations in former European and American
colonies, such as the cases in this book, have initiated dramatic
changes to anthropological approaches through Indigenous museum
practices. The book shapes a dialogue between both
situations-Euro-Americentric myopia and Oceanic perspectives-by
offering historically informed, ethnographic insights into
Indigenous museum practices grounded in Indigenous epistemologies,
ontologies, and cosmologies. In doing so, the book employs Oceanic
lenses that help to reframe Pacific collections in, and the
production of public understandings through, ethnographic museums
in Europe and the Americas. Following this line of reasoning,
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums sets out to offer insights into
Indigenous museologies across Oceania to recalibrate ethnographic
museums, collections, and practices through Indigenous Oceanic
approaches and perspectives. This, in turn, should assist any
museum scholar and professional in rethinking and redoing their
respective institutional settings, intellectual frameworks, and
museum processes when dealing with Oceanic affairs; and, more
broadly, in doing the "epistemic work" needed to confront
"coloniality," not only as a political problem or ethical
obligation, but "as an epistemology, as a politics of knowledge." A
distinctive feature is the book's layered coauthorship and
multi-vocality, drawing on a collaborative approach that has put
the (widespread) philosophical commitment to dialogical inquiry
into (seldom) practice by systematically co-constituting
ethnographic knowledge. In doing so, the book shapes an
"ethnographic kaleidoscope," proposing the metaphor of the
kaleidoscope as a way of encouraging fluid ethnographic engagements
to avoid the impulse to solidify and enclose differences, and
remain open to changing ethnographic meanings, positions,
performances, and relationships. The coauthors collaboratively
mobilize Oceanic eyes, bodies, and sovereignties, thus enacting an
ethnographic kaleidoscopic process and effect aimed at refocusing
ethnographic museums through Oceanic lenses.
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