| ISBN |
9781743326725 |
| Title |
Archival returns : Central Australia and beyond / edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
[Sydney], NSW : Sydney University Press, 2020. |
| ©2019. |
| Description |
xxviii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Indigenous music of Australia |
| Note |
"Published online 2019 as Special Publication No.18 of Language Documentation & Conservation, Language Documentation & Conservation, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 - 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 adhoc 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."--Back cover. |
| Subjects |
Cultural heritage - Repatriation |
| Cultural heritage - Protection |
| Cultural heritage - Management |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Central Australia |
| Cultural property -- Protection -- Australia, Central |
| Cultural property -- Repatriation -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians |
| Cultural property -- Australia |
| Cultural property -- Protection -- Australia |
| Cultural awareness -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Australia, Central |
| Archival materials |
| Australia -- Cultural policy |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Barwick, Linda (editor.) |
| Green, Jenny (Jennifer Anne) (editor.) |
| Vaarzon-Morel, Petronella (editor.) |
| Series |
Indigenous music of Australia |
| Call number |
2020.026 |
