Decolonizing Conservation
Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Published on 16. September 2016
272 pages
978-1-315-43060-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations,
File size
23,78 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-315-43060-7 (9781315430607)
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03/2008
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Person
Sully, Dean
Content
Part 1 Setting the Scene; chapter0 Introduction, Dean Sully; Chapter 1 Colonising and Conservation, Dean Sully; Part 2 A View from Aotearoa; Chapter 2 The Protection of Taonga and Maeori Heritage in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Arapata Hakiwai; Chapter 3 Conserving Living Taonga: The Concept of Continuity, Gamini Wijesuriya; Chapter 4 Marae Conservation in Aotearoa, James Schuster, Dean Whiting; Part 3 Conserving Expatriate Meeting Houses; Chapter 5 Ruatepupuke II, the Field Museum, Chicago: The Past and Possible Future, John Edward Terrell, Desiree CJ Wisse, Christopher J Philipp; Chapter 6 The Care of Living Objects: Conserving Rauru and te Wharepuni a Maui in Germany, Eva Garbutt-; Part 4 Hinemihi; Chapter 7 Introductionducing Hinemihi, Dean Sully, Alan Gallop; Chapter 8 The National Trust and Hinemihi at Clandon Park, Julie DeLong Lawlor, Katy Lithgow; Chapter 9 Hinemihi and the London Maeori Community, Karl Burrows; Poem: So Who Invited Tu?, Rosanna Raymond; Chapter 10 Hinemihi and Ngaeti (Tribe) Hinemihi, James Schuster; Chapter 11 Hinemihi's Return: A Legal Opinion, Kathryn Last; Chapter 12 Conserving Hinemihi at Clandon Park, UK, Dean Sully, Isabel Pombo Cardoso; Part 5 Conclusions; Chapter 13 Decolonising Hinemihi and Conservation Practice, Dean Sully;
