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Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christina F Kreps |
ISBN: | 0415250250 9780415250252 0415250269 9780415250269 |
OCLC Number: | 50511072 |
Description: | xvii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: liberating culture -- The Eurocentric museum model in the non-European world -- Indigenous models of museums, curation, and concepts of cultural heritage preservation -- Reclaiming the spirit of culture: Native Americans and cultural restitution -- Museums, culture, and development -- Comparative museology and cross-cultural heritage management: emerging paradigms for museological practice. |
Series Title: | Museum meanings. |
Responsibility: | Christina K. Kreps. |
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Abstract:
Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and Native North America, Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation is transforming conventional museum
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