Title Refocusing Ethnographic Museums Through Oceanic Lenses / Philipp Schorch, with Noelle M. K. Y Kahanu, Sean Mallon, Cristian Moreno Pakarati, Mara Mulrooney, Nina Tonga, and Ty P. Kāwika Tengan

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (317 pages) Contents HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part I Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai'i -- Chapter 1 I Kū Mau Mau -- Chapter 2 Rethinking Temporalities -- Part II Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui -- Chapter 3 Cross-Cultural Journeys -- Chapter 4 Curating an Island, Curing Rapa Nui -- Part III Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Aotearoa New Zealand -- Chapter 5 Materializing German-Sāmoan Colonial Legacies -- Chapter 6 "Anthropology's Interlocutors" and the Ethnographic Condition Conclusion An Ethnographic Kaleidoscope -- Afterword Regenerating Maka -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Blank Page Summary 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 Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui. Since their inception, ethnographic museums have influenced academic and public imaginations of other cultural-geographic regions, and the often resulting Euro-Americentric projection of anthropological imaginations has come under intense pressure, as seen in recent debates and conflicts around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany. 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. In doing so, it employs Oceanic lenses that help to reframe Pacific collections in, and the production of public understandings through, ethnographic museums in Europe and the Americas.By offering insights into Indigenous museologies across Oceania, the coauthors seek to recalibrate ethnographic museums, collections, and practices through Indigenous Oceanic approaches and perspectives. This, in turn, should assist any museum scholar and professional in rethinking and redoing their respective institutional settings, intellectual frameworks, and museum processes when dealing with Oceanic affairs; and, more broadly, in doing the "epistemic work" needed to confront "coloniality," not only as a political problem or ethical obligation, but "as an epistemology, as a politics of knowledge." A noteworthy feature is the book's layered coauthorship and multi-vocality, drawing on a collaborative approach that has put the (widespread) philosophical commitment to dialogical inquiry into (seldom) practice by systematically co-constituting ethnographic knowledge. Further, the book shapes an "ethnographic kaleidoscope," proposing the metaphor of the kaleidoscope as a way of encouraging fluid ethnographic engagements to avoid the impulse to solidify and enclose differences, and remain open to changing ethnographic meanings, positions, performances, and relationships. The coauthors collaboratively mobilize Oceanic eyes, bodies, and sovereignties, thus enacting an ethnographic kaleidoscopic process and effect aimed at refocusing ethnographic museums through Oceanic lenses Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2021) SUBJECT Ethnologisches Museum Berlin gnd Subject Ethnological museums and collections. Ethnology -- Oceania. Pacific Islanders. ART -- Museum Studies. Ethnological museums and collections Ethnology Pacific Islanders Indigenes Volk Kooperation Kurator Museumskunde Lokales Wissen Museumskunde SUBJECT Oceania. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 Subject Oceania Hawaii Form Electronic book Author Mallon, Sean, contributor Mulrooney, Mara, contributor Moreno Pakarati, Cristián, contributor Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika, 1975- contributor. Tonga, Nina, contributor Kahanu, Noelle M. K. Y., contributor ISBN 9780824883010 0824883012 9780824883027 0824883020

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