Graeme Were
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 149393 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Graeme Were |
| NOMBRES | Graeme |
| APELLIDO | Were |
| FIRMA | WERE G |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8022-1932 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Michael John Rowlands (1944–2025)
Rural Heritage, Museum Development and the Commodification of Folk Life in Vietnam
Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam
Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repair in contemporary Vietnam. Drawing on fieldwork in a range of museums in the country, alongside interviews with museum workers and stakeholders, and analyses of museum exhibitions, the book explores how museums help ordinary people overcome loss suffered during conflict. Focusing on key objects in museum collections that elicit…
Urban Development and Fishing Livelihoods in the Museum
This article explores how the topics of fishing and urban development are addressed in a Vietnamese social history museum. Drawing on a project taking place in the Museum of Danang, it describes the way the museum represented the voices of a displaced fishing community who were moved from traditional fishing huts on the riverside to a social housing complex as part of Danang's urban development plan in the 2000s. Capturing the impact of the commu…
Horse culture & tourism development
This study was aimed at investigating the horse culture and horse tourism potentials of Awi Zone. It was undertaken based on descriptive design and qualitative approach. Hence, non-probability sampling techniques, such as purposive and snowball, were employed to select the study sites and participants of the research. In-depth interview, focus group discussion, field observation and document analysis were used as instruments of data collection. T…
Analysis of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) contribution to access to natural, financial and physical capital in Norton, Zimbabwe
The study analyses the contribution of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in accessing financial, physical and natural capital by the newly resettled farmers and the implications on farmers’ livelihoods in Norton, Zimbabwe. There are no studies in Zimbabwe that interrogate how the FTLRP facilitated access to the above-referred three forms of capital and the effects on farmers’ livelihoods. To cover this gap, the study employed a qualita…
Texture
Texture is the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance. This property of objects, landscapes, bodies, and architectures is located in many diverse forms: from the grain of wood, the soft touch of silk, wind‐pitted stone, or the viscosity of porridge. In anthropology, texture is understood to stimulate the mind, body, and senses and so has been used—albeit somewhat indirectly—to emphasize a range of ideas about biography and val…
Representing Doi Moi
In late-socialist states, what are the drivers of shifts in national narratives and how can a focus on the museum method reveal the way state institutions construct national myths and nationalist ideologies? This paper addresses these questions by focusing on a behind-the-scenes ethnography of an exhibition celebrating 30 years of Doi Moi – the economic reform period in Vietnam that commenced in 1986. Focusing on the museum as method – the proces…
Digital heritage in a Melanesian context
This article examines how digital heritage, in the form of 3D digital objects, fits into particular discourses around identity, ancestrality and cultural transmission in Melanesia. Through an ethnographic analysis of digital heritage use amongst the Nalik community in New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), it demonstrates how digital heritage is understood not in terms of deceit and a loss of authenticity, but instead, towards an understanding of authen…
Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities
This article investigates digital heritage technologies from a Melanesian perspective. It explores-in the context of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea-the types of values placed on digital surrogates as a means to engage critically with recent debates on "digital" or "virtual" repatriation. It raises the question as to whether digital knowledge resources such as 3D digital objects are really seen as secondary or "second best" to the original or wheth…
Exhibition Reviews
Steampunk (Bradford Industrial Museum, UK) Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . . (Centre Pompidou, Paris) E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors ont une âme (Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris) The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Scott's Last Expedition (Natural History Museum, London) Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw) Focus…
Imaging digital lives
The articles presented in this special issue therefore give compelling accounts of how new imaging technologies offer changes in the conditions of production, circulation and access to visual culture. In focusing on different types of digital images and their specificities, they contribute to an emerging anthropology of digital communication that, by and large, has ignored digital images in favour of text-based mediation (e.g. Miller and Slater, …
On the materials of mats
This article examines the selective use of plant materials in design inMelanesia. It explores - through an analysis of pandanus leaf mats inNewIreland,PapuaNewGuinea - how makers select fibres on the basis of their capacity to express social relations to varying temporalities before their natural decay.J.J.Gibson's theory of affordance andDonaldNorman's concept of mapping are critically applied for this purpose. This approach emphasizes how socia…
Special issue
Re-engaging the university museum
In an era when university museums in the UK are engaging new audiences, this paper examines University College London's (UCL) museum and focuses on issues of knowledge, participation and community. Drawing on diverse collections and interests, this paper examines how competing ideologies relating to teaching and research collections raise complex internal political issues in encompassing diverse audiences. At the heart of this are matters of know…
Empathie avec la matière
Empathie avec la matière : comment repenser la nature de l'action technique.L'importance des matériaux est souvent minimisée dans l'analyse des systèmes sociaux et techniques alors qu'ils façonnent les bases mêmes du monde dans lequel nous vivons. Cet article se propose de questionner cette omission en attirant l'attention sur la nature des matériaux et des actions calculées qu'ils occasionnent. Nous soutenons que le potentiel transformatif des m…
Knowing things
Sensible objects
Fashioning Belief
This paper focuses on the emergence of the Baha'i faith in the Nalik-speaking area of northern New Ireland in the 1950s. I show how conversion to the Baha'i faith instated a new political and religious mode of being in the community, which encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their own spiritual development, their economic welfare and the care of their souls. In declaring themselves followers of the Baha'i faith, they fashioned thems…
Thinking Through Images
We can learn a lot about religious ideas by studying not just the impact on them of missionization but also how religious beliefs and practices are translated into local religious forms. In this article I draw attention to the case of the Baha'i faith in the Nalik area of northern New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In discussing how the faith became strongly associated with the ability to harness ancestral power, I argue that this relationship emerg…
Objects of Learning
Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of studies in ethnomathematics dedicated towards shedding light on its importance in enhancing education (cf. Bishop, 1988; Gerdes, 1985). Many ethno mathematicians have utilized the object world as a tool in the learning of mathematical concepts, but little research to date has focused on the role of objects as agents that activate mathematical thought. In this article I argue that the mat…
Clothing and innovation
Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities
This article investigates digital heritage technologies from a Melanesian perspective. It explores-in the context of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea-the types of values placed on digital surrogates as a means to engage critically with recent debates on "digital" or "virtual" repatriation. It raises the question as to whether digital knowledge resources such as 3D digital objects are really seen as secondary or "second best" to the original or wheth…
Thinking Through Images
We can learn a lot about religious ideas by studying not just the impact on them of missionization but also how religious beliefs and practices are translated into local religious forms. In this article I draw attention to the case of the Baha'i faith in the Nalik area of northern New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In discussing how the faith became strongly associated with the ability to harness ancestral power, I argue that this relationship emerg…
Empathie avec la matière
Empathie avec la matière : comment repenser la nature de l'action technique.L'importance des matériaux est souvent minimisée dans l'analyse des systèmes sociaux et techniques alors qu'ils façonnent les bases mêmes du monde dans lequel nous vivons. Cet article se propose de questionner cette omission en attirant l'attention sur la nature des matériaux et des actions calculées qu'ils occasionnent. Nous soutenons que le potentiel transformatif des m…
On the materials of mats
This article examines the selective use of plant materials in design inMelanesia. It explores - through an analysis of pandanus leaf mats inNewIreland,PapuaNewGuinea - how makers select fibres on the basis of their capacity to express social relations to varying temporalities before their natural decay.J.J.Gibson's theory of affordance andDonaldNorman's concept of mapping are critically applied for this purpose. This approach emphasizes how socia…
Re-engaging the university museum
In an era when university museums in the UK are engaging new audiences, this paper examines University College London's (UCL) museum and focuses on issues of knowledge, participation and community. Drawing on diverse collections and interests, this paper examines how competing ideologies relating to teaching and research collections raise complex internal political issues in encompassing diverse audiences. At the heart of this are matters of know…
Fashioning Belief
This paper focuses on the emergence of the Baha'i faith in the Nalik-speaking area of northern New Ireland in the 1950s. I show how conversion to the Baha'i faith instated a new political and religious mode of being in the community, which encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their own spiritual development, their economic welfare and the care of their souls. In declaring themselves followers of the Baha'i faith, they fashioned thems…
Digital heritage in a Melanesian context
This article examines how digital heritage, in the form of 3D digital objects, fits into particular discourses around identity, ancestrality and cultural transmission in Melanesia. Through an ethnographic analysis of digital heritage use amongst the Nalik community in New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), it demonstrates how digital heritage is understood not in terms of deceit and a loss of authenticity, but instead, towards an understanding of authen…
Imaging digital lives
The articles presented in this special issue therefore give compelling accounts of how new imaging technologies offer changes in the conditions of production, circulation and access to visual culture. In focusing on different types of digital images and their specificities, they contribute to an emerging anthropology of digital communication that, by and large, has ignored digital images in favour of text-based mediation (e.g. Miller and Slater, …
Special issue
Knowing things
Urban Development and Fishing Livelihoods in the Museum
This article explores how the topics of fishing and urban development are addressed in a Vietnamese social history museum. Drawing on a project taking place in the Museum of Danang, it describes the way the museum represented the voices of a displaced fishing community who were moved from traditional fishing huts on the riverside to a social housing complex as part of Danang's urban development plan in the 2000s. Capturing the impact of the commu…
Representing Doi Moi
In late-socialist states, what are the drivers of shifts in national narratives and how can a focus on the museum method reveal the way state institutions construct national myths and nationalist ideologies? This paper addresses these questions by focusing on a behind-the-scenes ethnography of an exhibition celebrating 30 years of Doi Moi – the economic reform period in Vietnam that commenced in 1986. Focusing on the museum as method – the proces…
Objects of Learning
Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of studies in ethnomathematics dedicated towards shedding light on its importance in enhancing education (cf. Bishop, 1988; Gerdes, 1985). Many ethno mathematicians have utilized the object world as a tool in the learning of mathematical concepts, but little research to date has focused on the role of objects as agents that activate mathematical thought. In this article I argue that the mat…
Clothing and innovation
Objects of Learning
Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of studies in ethnomathematics dedicated towards shedding light on its importance in enhancing education (cf. Bishop, 1988; Gerdes, 1985). Many ethno mathematicians have utilized the object world as a tool in the learning of mathematical concepts, but little research to date has focused on the role of objects as agents that activate mathematical thought. In this article I argue that the mat…
Clothing and innovation
Thinking Through Images
We can learn a lot about religious ideas by studying not just the impact on them of missionization but also how religious beliefs and practices are translated into local religious forms. In this article I draw attention to the case of the Baha'i faith in the Nalik area of northern New Ireland (Papua New Guinea). In discussing how the faith became strongly associated with the ability to harness ancestral power, I argue that this relationship emerg…
Fashioning Belief
This paper focuses on the emergence of the Baha'i faith in the Nalik-speaking area of northern New Ireland in the 1950s. I show how conversion to the Baha'i faith instated a new political and religious mode of being in the community, which encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their own spiritual development, their economic welfare and the care of their souls. In declaring themselves followers of the Baha'i faith, they fashioned thems…
Knowing things
Sensible objects
Empathie avec la matière
Empathie avec la matière : comment repenser la nature de l'action technique.L'importance des matériaux est souvent minimisée dans l'analyse des systèmes sociaux et techniques alors qu'ils façonnent les bases mêmes du monde dans lequel nous vivons. Cet article se propose de questionner cette omission en attirant l'attention sur la nature des matériaux et des actions calculées qu'ils occasionnent. Nous soutenons que le potentiel transformatif des m…
Special issue
Re-engaging the university museum
In an era when university museums in the UK are engaging new audiences, this paper examines University College London's (UCL) museum and focuses on issues of knowledge, participation and community. Drawing on diverse collections and interests, this paper examines how competing ideologies relating to teaching and research collections raise complex internal political issues in encompassing diverse audiences. At the heart of this are matters of know…
Exhibition Reviews
Steampunk (Bradford Industrial Museum, UK) Framing India: Paris-Delhi-Bombay . . . (Centre Pompidou, Paris) E Tū Ake: Māori Standing Strong/Māori: leurs trésors ont une âme (Te Papa, Wellington, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris) The New American Art Galleries, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Scott's Last Expedition (Natural History Museum, London) Left-Wing Art, Right-Wing Art, Pure Art: New National Art (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw) Focus…
Imaging digital lives
The articles presented in this special issue therefore give compelling accounts of how new imaging technologies offer changes in the conditions of production, circulation and access to visual culture. In focusing on different types of digital images and their specificities, they contribute to an emerging anthropology of digital communication that, by and large, has ignored digital images in favour of text-based mediation (e.g. Miller and Slater, …
On the materials of mats
This article examines the selective use of plant materials in design inMelanesia. It explores - through an analysis of pandanus leaf mats inNewIreland,PapuaNewGuinea - how makers select fibres on the basis of their capacity to express social relations to varying temporalities before their natural decay.J.J.Gibson's theory of affordance andDonaldNorman's concept of mapping are critically applied for this purpose. This approach emphasizes how socia…
Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities
This article investigates digital heritage technologies from a Melanesian perspective. It explores-in the context of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea-the types of values placed on digital surrogates as a means to engage critically with recent debates on "digital" or "virtual" repatriation. It raises the question as to whether digital knowledge resources such as 3D digital objects are really seen as secondary or "second best" to the original or wheth…
Digital heritage in a Melanesian context
This article examines how digital heritage, in the form of 3D digital objects, fits into particular discourses around identity, ancestrality and cultural transmission in Melanesia. Through an ethnographic analysis of digital heritage use amongst the Nalik community in New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), it demonstrates how digital heritage is understood not in terms of deceit and a loss of authenticity, but instead, towards an understanding of authen…
Texture
Texture is the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance. This property of objects, landscapes, bodies, and architectures is located in many diverse forms: from the grain of wood, the soft touch of silk, wind‐pitted stone, or the viscosity of porridge. In anthropology, texture is understood to stimulate the mind, body, and senses and so has been used—albeit somewhat indirectly—to emphasize a range of ideas about biography and val…
Representing Doi Moi
In late-socialist states, what are the drivers of shifts in national narratives and how can a focus on the museum method reveal the way state institutions construct national myths and nationalist ideologies? This paper addresses these questions by focusing on a behind-the-scenes ethnography of an exhibition celebrating 30 years of Doi Moi – the economic reform period in Vietnam that commenced in 1986. Focusing on the museum as method – the proces…
Horse culture & tourism development
This study was aimed at investigating the horse culture and horse tourism potentials of Awi Zone. It was undertaken based on descriptive design and qualitative approach. Hence, non-probability sampling techniques, such as purposive and snowball, were employed to select the study sites and participants of the research. In-depth interview, focus group discussion, field observation and document analysis were used as instruments of data collection. T…
Analysis of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) contribution to access to natural, financial and physical capital in Norton, Zimbabwe
The study analyses the contribution of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) in accessing financial, physical and natural capital by the newly resettled farmers and the implications on farmers’ livelihoods in Norton, Zimbabwe. There are no studies in Zimbabwe that interrogate how the FTLRP facilitated access to the above-referred three forms of capital and the effects on farmers’ livelihoods. To cover this gap, the study employed a qualita…
Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam
Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repair in contemporary Vietnam. Drawing on fieldwork in a range of museums in the country, alongside interviews with museum workers and stakeholders, and analyses of museum exhibitions, the book explores how museums help ordinary people overcome loss suffered during conflict. Focusing on key objects in museum collections that elicit…
Urban Development and Fishing Livelihoods in the Museum
This article explores how the topics of fishing and urban development are addressed in a Vietnamese social history museum. Drawing on a project taking place in the Museum of Danang, it describes the way the museum represented the voices of a displaced fishing community who were moved from traditional fishing huts on the riverside to a social housing complex as part of Danang's urban development plan in the 2000s. Capturing the impact of the commu…
Michael John Rowlands (1944–2025)
Rural Heritage, Museum Development and the Commodification of Folk Life in Vietnam
Sociology (11 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras)