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Playing Ourselves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Playing Ourselves

Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed Oliving historyO sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves explores this major shift in representation, using detailed observations of five historic sites in the U.S. and Canada to both discuss the theoretical aspects of Native cultural performance and advise interpreters and their managers on how to more effectively present an inclusive history. Drawing on anthropology, history, cultural performance, cross-cultural encounters, material culture theory, and public history, author Laura Peers examines Oliving historyO sites as locations of cultural performance where core beliefs about society, cross-cultural relationships, and history are performed. In the process, she emphasizes how choices made in the communication of history can both challenge these core beliefs about the past and improve cross-cultural relations in the present.

This Is Our Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

This Is Our Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum to work with several hundred heritage treasures. Featuring contributions from all the participants and a rich selection of illustrations, This Is Our Life details the remarkable story of the Haida Project � from the planning to the encounter and through the years that followed. A fascinating look at the meaning behind objects, the value of repatriation, and the impact of historical trajectories like colonialism, this is also a story of the understanding that grew between the Haida people and museum staff.

Pictures Bring Us Messages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Pictures Bring Us Messages

While based in Canada, the dynamics of the 'Pictures Bring Us Messages' project is relevant to indigenous peoples and heritage institutions around the world

Keeping Their Marbles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Keeping Their Marbles

  • Categories: Art

The story of how the museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not by returned to the lands -- or the people -- from which they came.

Playing Ourselves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Playing Ourselves

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Across North America, hundreds of reconstructed Oliving historyO sites, which traditionally presented history from a primarily European perspective, have hired Native staff in an attempt to communicate a broader view of the past. Playing Ourselves explores this major shift in representation, using detailed observations of five historic sites in the U.S. and Canada to both discuss the theoretical aspects of Native cultural performance and advise interpreters and their managers on how to more effectively present an inclusive history. Drawing on anthropology, history, cultural performance, cross-cultural encounters, material culture theory, and public history, author Laura Peers examines Oliving historyO sites as locations of cultural performance where core beliefs about society, cross-cultural relationships, and history are performed. In the process, she emphasizes how choices made in the communication of history can both challenge these core beliefs about the past and improve cross-cultural relations in the present.

Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 673

Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups

This comprehensive, authoritative handbook covers the breadth of theories, methods, and empirically based findings on the ways in which children and adolescents contribute to one another's development. Leading researchers review what is known about the dynamics of peer interactions and relationships from infancy through adolescence. Topics include methods of assessing friendship and peer networks; early romantic relationships; individual differences and contextual factors in children's social and emotional competencies and behaviors; group dynamics; and the impact of peer relations on achievement, social adaptation, and mental health. Salient issues in intervention and prevention are also addressed.

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses

  • Categories: Art

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. ...

The Politics of Heritage in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

The Politics of Heritage in Africa

This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.

Djalkiri
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Djalkiri

  • Categories: Art

“The patterns and designs were laid down on the country and in the minds of Yolŋu by the ancestral beings at the time of creation. They have been passed on through the generations from our great grandparents, to our grandparents, to our parents, to us. They are the reality of this country. They tell us all who we are.” — Djambawa Marawili AM Djalkiri are “footprints" – ancestral imprints on the landscape that provide the Yolŋu people of eastern Arnhem Land with their philosophical foundations. This book describes how Yolŋu artists and communities keep these foundations strong, and how they have worked with museums to develop a collaborative, community-led approach to the collect...

Gorilla Dating
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Gorilla Dating

A Workplace Romantic Comedy -- USA Today Bestselling Contemporary Romance Author Kate Cormick is at a crossroads. She's ended both her long-term relationship and her long-term career and is trying to rebuild her life among the hills of Austin, Texas. Kate feels like her new co-workers are a pack of zany animals who all receive primate-themed nicknames, and it's not just because her team is managing the opening of the new Capitol of Texas Zoo. When consultant Jack Cooper joins the team, Kate knows a good word from him to her boss will solidify the career path she's now on. But the word she doesn't count on is love. When the up-and-comer that Kate has dubbed the "Queen Chimp" tells the entire ...