Refocusing Ethnographic Museums Through Oceanic Lenses by Philipp Schorch

This is a second-hand copy of the book Refocusing Ethnographic Museums Through Oceanic Lenses by Philipp Schorch.

Condition; This is a used book very good condition. This copy is ex-library with the usual stamps and inserts. It has clean white pages and is in 'as new' condition - see photos

Publisher: Otago University Press
Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781988592398
Format: Softback
Pages: 299
Condition: Used Ex-library (Very Good)

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 and as a result, Euro-Americentric projection of anthropological imaginations has come under intense pressure. 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.