Curatorship: Indigenous Perspectives in Post-Colonial Societies

by Joy Davis, Martin Segger, Lois Irvine

Museums and cultural centers -- keeping places -- play an important role in the reemergence of cultural autonomy in indigenous societies. This book examines the realignment of relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of the Commonwealth in the context of traditional museum practices.

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Michelle Boyer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whenever you combine conference papers/conference proceedings/presentation question and responses, it reads a bit clunky. I'm finding this with any of these types of books so that is not to say that this book does not contain relevant research material. But, clunky is a good way to describe what you're getting into.

Some of the opening night speeches are probably interesting if you were there. The same can be said of some of the closings. I'm also not particularly fond of about half of the Q/A portions at the end of presentations (chapters) because about half of those are just someone in the audience commenting about how "good" the paper was, or saying "I agree," or "I have the same issue HERE." None of that was helpful to my research so it became hard to slug through.

For the papers themselves, 3-stars. For the clunky-ness of everything else, minus two stars.