Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value

Howard Morphy is Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University. Robyn McKenzie is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University working on the Australian Research Council funded project The Relational Museum and its Objects: engaging Indigenous Australian communities with their distributed collections.

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; Section I Making and Remaking of Collections; Chapter 1 Inalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor collection; Chapter 2 The emergence of value in the process of the Sámi repatriation: Bååstede; Chapter 3 Colonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentiment; Chapter 4 Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging; Section II Creating Value – Inside and Outside the Museum; Chapter 5 Aboriginal secret-sacred objects, their values and future prospects; Chapter 6 Systems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex; Chapter 7 Displaying, creating and mobilizing value in a museum exhibition: Pacific Currents in Cambridge; Chapter 8 The revaluation of historical collections by source communities: the string figures of Yirrkala; Section III Engagement and Return; Chapter 9 ‘Go throw it in the river’, shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections; Chapter 10 Digital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste; Chapter 11 Digital/object/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context: have you socialized your clones?; Section IV Indigenous Agency; Chapter 12 Value creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective; Chapter 13 Yolŋu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections: the work and journey of Joseph Gumbula; Chapter 14 Creating value through cultural capital: ‘Witira Kanyila – "work as one to make it strong"'; Index.