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This volume explores cultural, social and economic connections
between the Americas and the South Pacific. It reaches beyond
Sino-American collaborations to focus on rather neglected, and
sometimes invisible, Southern linkages, asking how these
connections originated and have developed over time, which local
responses they have generated, and what impact these processes have
in the region in terms of representational forms and strategies,
new cultural practices, and empowerment of individuals in
(post)colonial contexts. The volume also compares and contrasts
intriguing parallels of politics and identity formation. By
extending the focus beyond East Asia to the Southern Pacific
region, including Island connections with the Americas, the volume
provides a more comprehensive understanding of recent dynamics and
shifting relations across the Pacific. By approaching the
Transpacific Americas as an assemblage or relational space, which
is created and becomes meaningful through multiple localities and
their translocal connections, the book complicates the
Euro-American distinction between "centre" and "rim". While the
collection offers a distinctive geographical focus, it
simultaneously emphasizes the translocal qualities of specific
locations through their entanglements in transpacific assemblages
within and across cultural, social and economic spheres.
Furthermore, without neglecting the inextricable, historical
dimension of anthropological perspectives, the focus is on the
diverse and unexpected contemporary forms of cultural, social and
economic encounters and engagements, and on (re)emerging Indigenous
networks. Primarily based on empirical research, the volume
explores face-to-face encounters, relations "from below," and
transcultural interactions and relationships in, as well as ideas
and conceptualizations of, cultural spaces across localities that
have long been perceived as separate, but are indeed closely
interconnected.
This volume explores cultural, social and economic connections
between the Americas and the South Pacific. It reaches beyond
Sino-American collaborations to focus on rather neglected, and
sometimes invisible, Southern linkages, asking how these
connections originated and have developed over time, which local
responses they have generated, and what impact these processes have
in the region in terms of representational forms and strategies,
new cultural practices, and empowerment of individuals in
(post)colonial contexts. The volume also compares and contrasts
intriguing parallels of politics and identity formation. By
extending the focus beyond East Asia to the Southern Pacific
region, including Island connections with the Americas, the volume
provides a more comprehensive understanding of recent dynamics and
shifting relations across the Pacific. By approaching the
Transpacific Americas as an assemblage or relational space, which
is created and becomes meaningful through multiple localities and
their translocal connections, the book complicates the
Euro-American distinction between "centre" and "rim". While the
collection offers a distinctive geographical focus, it
simultaneously emphasizes the translocal qualities of specific
locations through their entanglements in transpacific assemblages
within and across cultural, social and economic spheres.
Furthermore, without neglecting the inextricable, historical
dimension of anthropological perspectives, the focus is on the
diverse and unexpected contemporary forms of cultural, social and
economic encounters and engagements, and on (re)emerging Indigenous
networks. Primarily based on empirical research, the volume
explores face-to-face encounters, relations "from below," and
transcultural interactions and relationships in, as well as ideas
and conceptualizations of, cultural spaces across localities that
have long been perceived as separate, but are indeed closely
interconnected.
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they
come about? How is the relationship between the built environment,
memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial,
material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these
(post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such
(post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated?
By addressing these questions, this volume releases "curation" from
its usual museological framing and carries it into urban
environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly
state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative
orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity,
and material commemorative culture.
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal
model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or
is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial
heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by
considering the current state of curatorship. It reviews the
different models and approaches operating in museums, galleries and
cultural organisations around the world and discusses emerging
concerns, challenges and opportunities. The collection explores the
ways in which the mutual, asymmetrical relations underpinning
global, scientific entanglements of the past can be transformed
into more reciprocal, symmetrical forms of cross-cultural
curatorship in the present, arguing that this is the most effective
way for curatorial practice to remain meaningful. International in
scope, the volume covers three regions: Europe, North America and
the Pacific. -- .
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.
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
Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui. Since their
inception, ethnographic museums have influenced academic and public
imaginations of other cultural-geographic regions, and the 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 have initiated dramatic changes to
anthropological approaches through Indigenous museum practices.
This book shapes a dialogue between 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, it employs Oceanic lenses that help to reframe Pacific
collections in, and the production of public understandings
through, ethnographic museums in Europe and the Americas. By
offering insights into Indigenous museologies across Oceania, the
coauthors seek 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 noteworthy 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. Further, 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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