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Ceremony men : making ethnography and the return of the Strehlow collection / Jason M. Gibson.

Ceremony men : making ethnography and the return of the Strehlow collection / Jason M. Gibson.
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ISBN 9781438478555 (hbk)
9781438478562 (ebk)
Author Gibson, Jason M. (Jason Matthew), 1976- (author)
Title Ceremony men : making ethnography and the return of the Strehlow collection / Jason M. Gibson.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Description xvi, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Suny series, tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Archive and field -- Early Alhernter encounters -- Strehlow's scope -- A balancing act -- Urrempel man -- Declarations of relatedness -- The intermingling of intimate narratives -- "Your'e my Kwertengerl" -- Conclusion.
Summary "Ceremony Men is an account of one scholar's attempt to return an anthropological collection to Aboriginal communities in remote central Australia. In revealing his process, Jason M. Gibson highlights the importance of personal rapport and collaborations in ethnographic exchange, both past and present, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of sociality, relationship, and orality when Indigenous peoples encounter museum collections today. Combining forensic historical analysis with contemporary ethnographic research, this book challenges the notion that anthropological archives will necessarily become authoritative or dominant statements on a people's cultural identity. Instead, Indigenous peoples will often interrogate and re-contextualise this material with great dexterity as they work to re-integrate the documented into their present-day social lives. By analyzing one of the world's greatest collections of Indigenous song, myth and ceremony-the collections of linguist/anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow-Ceremony Men demonstrates how inextricably intertwined ethnographic collections can become in complex historical and social relations. By theorizing the nature of the documenter-documented relationships this book makes an important contribution to the at times simplistic post-colonial generalizations that dominate analyses of colonial interaction. A story of local agency is uncovered that enriches our understanding of the human engagements that took (and continue to take) place within varying colonial relations of Australia"--back cover.
Subjects Strehlow, T. G. H.(Theodor George Henry),1908-1978
Strehlow Research Centre
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects
Ethnology -- Australia
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Australia -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Series Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building
Call number 2020.230
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