DECOLONIZING CONSERVATION : CARING FOR MAORI MEETING HOUSES OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.
Title:
DECOLONIZING CONSERVATION : CARING FOR MAORI MEETING HOUSES OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.
Author:
Sully, Dean.
ISBN:
9781598747898
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Series:
Critical Cultural Heritage Series
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Part I: Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Dean Sully -- 1. Colonising and Conservation -- Dean Sully -- Part II: A View from Aotearoa -- 2. The Protection of Taonga and Mäori Heritage in Aotearoa (New Zealand) -- Arapata Hakiwai -- 3. Conserving Living Taonga: The Concept of Continuity -- Gamini Wijesuriya -- 4. Marae Conservation in Aotearoa -- James Schuster and Dean Whiting -- Part III: Conserving Expatriate Meeting Houses -- 5. Ruatepupuke II, The Field Museum, Chicago: The Past and Possible Future -- John Edward Terrell, Désirée CJ Wisse, and Christopher J Philipp -- 6. The Care of Living Objects: Conserving Rauru and Te Wharepuni a Maui in Germany -- Eva Garbutt -- Part IV: Hinemihi -- 7. Introducing Hinemihi -- Dean Sully and Alan Gallop -- 8. The National Trust and Hinemihi at Clandon Park -- Julie DeLong Lawlor and Katy Lithgow -- 9. Hinemihi and the London Mäori Community -- Karl Burrows -- Poem: So Who Invited Tu? -- Rosanna Raymond -- 10. Hinemihi and Ngäti (Tribe) Hinemihi -- James Schuster -- 11. Hinemihi's Return: A Legal Opinion -- Kathryn Last -- 12. Conserving Hinemihi at Clandon Park, UK -- Dean Sully and Isabel Pombo Cardoso -- Part V: Conclusions -- 13. Decolonising Hinemihi and Conservation Practice -- Dean Sully -- Glossary of Maori Terms -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Abstract:
This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people's lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors examine conservation activities at Maori marae-meeting houses-located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred structure is a key example of community based conservation that can be replicated in heritage practice around the world.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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