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Archival Returns
Central Australia and Beyond
Series: Indigenous Music of Australia
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Recommended for professionals and academics engaged with Indigenous cultural heritage, including museum curators, anthropologists, archivists, and those interested in decolonisation practices within cultural institutions.
Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond explores the strategies and practices by which cultural heritage materials can be returned to their communities of origin, and the issues this process raises for communities, as well as for museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions.
Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond explores how cultural heritage materials can be returned to their communities of origin.
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Place-based cultural knowledge of ceremonies, songs, stories, language, kinship and ecology binds Australian Indigenous societies together. Over the last 100 years or so, records of this knowledge in many different formats—such as audiocassettes, photographs, films, written texts, maps, and digital recordings—have been accumulating at an ever-increasing rate. Yet this extensive documentary heritage is dispersed. In many cases, the Indigenous people who participated in the creation of the records, or their descendants, have little idea of where to find the records or how to access them. Some records are held precariously in ad hoc collections, and their caretakers may be perplexed as to how to ensure that they are looked after.
Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond explores the strategies and practices by which cultural heritage materials can be returned to their communities of origin, and the issues this process raises for communities, as well as for museums, galleries, and other cultural institutions.
Series: Indigenous Music of Australia
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Described as revealing the "layers of complexity" in archival return processes, this book is deemed essential for folklorists, ethnomusicologists, archivists, and anthropologists working with Aboriginal cultural heritage. It also appeals to a broader audience by showcasing inspiring efforts to decolonise cultural-heritage institutions.
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ISBN: 9781743326725
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 February 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Linda Barwick
- Edited by Jennifer Green
- Edited by Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 372
About the Author
Linda Barwick is a musicologist and professor at the University of Sydney's Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Jennifer Green is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has worked for over four decades with Indigenous people in Central Australia documenting languages, cultural history, art, social organisation and connections to country.
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel is an anthropologist with long-term experience working with Warlpiri and other Indigenous peoples in Central Australia. She is an honorary research associate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney.
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