Returns and Reconnections
Engaging Indigenous and Community Relationships with the Deep Past
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2027
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-350-52694-5 (ISBN)
Description
This open access collection explores the many ways in which Indigenous and descent communities in Africa, Australia, and the Pacific form connections with the deep past by engaging with their material heritage.
Featuring nine chapters and six responses by leading and emerging international archaeologists, historians, museum researchers, and museum practitioners, all of which are designed or co-designed in collaboration with Indigenous activists and knowledge holders, the book makes space for different concepts of time and history, as well as for diverse ways of talking about and using the past in the present. Together, these reflections speak to how the actions and legacies of collectors and researchers have affected and continue to affect Indigenous relationships with the deep past,. Ultimately, it points to how such work can better shape opportunities for people today to engage with the material traces of their ancestors.
For its timely interventions into the key concerns in museums and heritage theory and practice, this is a go-to resources for researchers, postgraduates, and practitioners interested in Indigenous studies, heritage studies, and postcolonial studies.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian National University.
Featuring nine chapters and six responses by leading and emerging international archaeologists, historians, museum researchers, and museum practitioners, all of which are designed or co-designed in collaboration with Indigenous activists and knowledge holders, the book makes space for different concepts of time and history, as well as for diverse ways of talking about and using the past in the present. Together, these reflections speak to how the actions and legacies of collectors and researchers have affected and continue to affect Indigenous relationships with the deep past,. Ultimately, it points to how such work can better shape opportunities for people today to engage with the material traces of their ancestors.
For its timely interventions into the key concerns in museums and heritage theory and practice, this is a go-to resources for researchers, postgraduates, and practitioners interested in Indigenous studies, heritage studies, and postcolonial studies.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Australian National University.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-52694-5 (9781350526945)
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Persons
Mike Jones is Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous and Colonial Histories at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is an archivist and historian interested in improved methods for making historical materials accessible to communities and institutions in support of cultural renewal. He is the author of Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum (2022).
Paul Lane is Partner at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre and Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is an archaeologist of Africa with research interests in heritage, the politics of the past and the applied value of archaeological knowledge for planning more sustainable and resilient futures on the African continent. He is co-editor with Peter Mitchell of The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology (2013).
Ben Silverstein is Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University, Australia, on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country. He researches colonial and Indigenous histories. He is the author of Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North (2019) and is a co-editor of the journal Aboriginal History.
Paul Lane is Partner at the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre and Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is an archaeologist of Africa with research interests in heritage, the politics of the past and the applied value of archaeological knowledge for planning more sustainable and resilient futures on the African continent. He is co-editor with Peter Mitchell of The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology (2013).
Ben Silverstein is Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University, Australia, on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country. He researches colonial and Indigenous histories. He is the author of Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia's North (2019) and is a co-editor of the journal Aboriginal History.
Content
Introduction: Returns and Reconnections
Mike Jones, University of Tasmania/Australian National University, Australia; Paul Lane, University of Cambridge, UK; Ben Silverstein, Australian National University, Australia
Part I: Troubling Collaborations
1. Great Zimbabwe and Spirit Mediums: Are Community and Archaeological Concerns Reconcilable?
Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford, UK, and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe
2. Stories of the Mamarika: Co-creation as an Interdisciplinary Approach to Indigenous Research
Laura Rademaker, Australian National University, Australia; Annie Clarke, University of Sydney, Australia; Ursula Frederick, Australian National University, Australia; Susan Lowish, University of Melbourne, Australia
3. Deep Pasts in Recent Times: Excavating Archaeological Human Remains in Post-genocide Rwanda
John Giblin, National Museum of Scotland, Scotland; Andre Ntagwabira, Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy, Rwanda; Maurice Mugabowagahunde, University of Rwanda, Rwanda; Rebecca Watts, University College London, UK
Responses
Joost Fontein, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Charlotte Joy, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Part II: Returning (to) Collections
4. Reconnecting with Aboriginal Objects from the Coastal Sydney Region: Dispersed Collections, Colonial Histories, and Contemporary Communities
Maria Nugent, Australian National University, Australia; Paul Irish, Coast History and Heritage, Austrlia; Gaye Sculthorpe, British Museum, UK / Deakin University, Australia; Daniel Simpson, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Lissant Bolton, British Museum, UK / Australian National University, Australia; Caroline Cartwright, British Museum, UK; Nicholas Thomas, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Noeleen Timbery, La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council, Australia
5. Research as Repatriation: The Colonial Archive and the Voices from Local Nigerian Communities
George Agbo, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, NIgeria; Glory Chika-Kanu, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
6. The Ancestor and the Collector
Leah Lui-Chivizhe, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Responses
Mariko Smith, Australian Museum/University of Sydney, Australia
Julia Hurst, University of Melbourne, Australia
Part III: Representing Community Knowledges
7. Material Witnesses: The Kuwae Eruption and the Currency of the Past on Tongoa
Chris Ballard, Australian National University, Australia; Sandrine Bessis, Universite de Sorbonne Nouvelle, France; Alice Kaloran, Tongoa and Shepherd Islands Women's Association, Australia; Maelle Calandra, Universite Clermont Auvergne, France
8. Re-examining Traumatic Pasts and Centering Community Voices within and beyond the Limits of 'Conventional' Museum Spaces
Bongani Ndhlovu, Iziko Museums of South Africa/University of Cape Town, South Africa; Annelize Kotze, Iziko Museums of South Africa/University of Cape Town, South Africa; Nichodimas Cooper, Nama Heritage Community Museum/Heritage Activist, Namibia
9. Basket in the Bookshelf, Shield in the Den: Storied Atefacts and Indigenous Curatorship
Tahnee Innes, Centre for Native Title Anthropology, Australia
Responses
Dacia Viejo-Rose, University of Cambridge, UK
Robin Derricourt, University of New South Wales, Australia
Afterword
Ann McGrath, Australian National University, Australia
Mike Jones, University of Tasmania/Australian National University, Australia; Paul Lane, University of Cambridge, UK; Ben Silverstein, Australian National University, Australia
Part I: Troubling Collaborations
1. Great Zimbabwe and Spirit Mediums: Are Community and Archaeological Concerns Reconcilable?
Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford, UK, and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe
2. Stories of the Mamarika: Co-creation as an Interdisciplinary Approach to Indigenous Research
Laura Rademaker, Australian National University, Australia; Annie Clarke, University of Sydney, Australia; Ursula Frederick, Australian National University, Australia; Susan Lowish, University of Melbourne, Australia
3. Deep Pasts in Recent Times: Excavating Archaeological Human Remains in Post-genocide Rwanda
John Giblin, National Museum of Scotland, Scotland; Andre Ntagwabira, Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy, Rwanda; Maurice Mugabowagahunde, University of Rwanda, Rwanda; Rebecca Watts, University College London, UK
Responses
Joost Fontein, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Charlotte Joy, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Part II: Returning (to) Collections
4. Reconnecting with Aboriginal Objects from the Coastal Sydney Region: Dispersed Collections, Colonial Histories, and Contemporary Communities
Maria Nugent, Australian National University, Australia; Paul Irish, Coast History and Heritage, Austrlia; Gaye Sculthorpe, British Museum, UK / Deakin University, Australia; Daniel Simpson, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Lissant Bolton, British Museum, UK / Australian National University, Australia; Caroline Cartwright, British Museum, UK; Nicholas Thomas, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK; Noeleen Timbery, La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council, Australia
5. Research as Repatriation: The Colonial Archive and the Voices from Local Nigerian Communities
George Agbo, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, NIgeria; Glory Chika-Kanu, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
6. The Ancestor and the Collector
Leah Lui-Chivizhe, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Responses
Mariko Smith, Australian Museum/University of Sydney, Australia
Julia Hurst, University of Melbourne, Australia
Part III: Representing Community Knowledges
7. Material Witnesses: The Kuwae Eruption and the Currency of the Past on Tongoa
Chris Ballard, Australian National University, Australia; Sandrine Bessis, Universite de Sorbonne Nouvelle, France; Alice Kaloran, Tongoa and Shepherd Islands Women's Association, Australia; Maelle Calandra, Universite Clermont Auvergne, France
8. Re-examining Traumatic Pasts and Centering Community Voices within and beyond the Limits of 'Conventional' Museum Spaces
Bongani Ndhlovu, Iziko Museums of South Africa/University of Cape Town, South Africa; Annelize Kotze, Iziko Museums of South Africa/University of Cape Town, South Africa; Nichodimas Cooper, Nama Heritage Community Museum/Heritage Activist, Namibia
9. Basket in the Bookshelf, Shield in the Den: Storied Atefacts and Indigenous Curatorship
Tahnee Innes, Centre for Native Title Anthropology, Australia
Responses
Dacia Viejo-Rose, University of Cambridge, UK
Robin Derricourt, University of New South Wales, Australia
Afterword
Ann McGrath, Australian National University, Australia