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This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage
conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric
of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on
people's lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of
sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and
attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors
examine conservation activities at Maori marae-meeting
houses-located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them
with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study
is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s
where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for
over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural
activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include
various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred
structure is a key example of community based conservation that can
be replicated in heritage practice around the world.
This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage
conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric
of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on
people's lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of
sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and
attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors
examine conservation activities at Maori marae-meeting
houses-located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them
with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study
is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s
where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for
over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural
activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include
various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred
structure is a key example of community based conservation that can
be replicated in heritage practice around the world.
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