Bronwyn Labrum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3429578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronwyn Labrum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronwyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Labrum |
| SIGNATURE | LABRUM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1189-5965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Women “Making History” in Museums
This article examines three remarkable New Zealand women, Nancy Adams, Rose Reynolds, and Edna Stephenson, who, as honorary or part-time staff, each began the systematic collecting and display of colonial history at museums in Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland in the 1950s. Noting how little research has been published on women workers in museums, let alone women history curators, it offers an important correction to the usual story of the h…
Expanding fashion exhibition history and theory
New Zealand museums, as opposed to art galleries, have been slow to exhibit fashion. Instead, fashion and decorative arts were part of human history collections and displays, emphasizing the country’s colonial heritage. Yet museums have increasingly focused on fashion as a distinctive mode of display. This article traces the story of fashion and its display at New Zealand’s national museum since 1950. It extends the notion of ‘fashion’ to include…
Material Histories in Australia and New Zealand
Many scholars have observed that we have recently witnessed a ‘material turn’, a term which acknowledges the broad interest over a range of social science and humanities disciplines in material culture, objects or stuff, however it is named. This article asks whether there has been a comparable material turn in Australia and New Zealand historical studies. It chart the contours of that scholarship, drawing on the author’s own work and selected st…
Matter in Place
Editorial
Amiria Henare, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange
xix+323This wide-ranging and ambitious book will be essential reading for those interested in the history of museums, material culture, anthropological thought, settler-indigenous relations and migration.It offers a series of rich and stimulating narratives through an original analysis of material culture and anthropological exchange between two countries that are not usually brought into comparison so directly.Henare demonstrates the way that Sc…
The Material Culture of Welfare in Aotearoa/New Zealand
In recent years historians have become interested in the cultural history of welfare. In this paper I examine an often overlooked aspect of its material culture: the role and function of clothing. Drawing on examples from encounters between families and state welfare workers in the twentieth century where the clothing of children in particular constitutes part of the definition of ‘need’, I explore how clothing can be written into the histories o…
Developing “The Essentials of Good Citizenship and Responsibilities” in Maori Women
New Zealand’s welfare state made unprecedented provision for the indigenous people of New Zealand. The Department of Maori Affairs employed Maori welfare officers to inculcate “the essentials of good citizenship and responsibilities” and to promote social change in a period when Maori were becoming one of the most highly urbanized indigenous peoples in the world. Female Maori welfare officers worked with women and children, devoting attention to …
Expanding fashion exhibition history and theory
New Zealand museums, as opposed to art galleries, have been slow to exhibit fashion. Instead, fashion and decorative arts were part of human history collections and displays, emphasizing the country’s colonial heritage. Yet museums have increasingly focused on fashion as a distinctive mode of display. This article traces the story of fashion and its display at New Zealand’s national museum since 1950. It extends the notion of ‘fashion’ to include…
Material Histories in Australia and New Zealand
Many scholars have observed that we have recently witnessed a ‘material turn’, a term which acknowledges the broad interest over a range of social science and humanities disciplines in material culture, objects or stuff, however it is named. This article asks whether there has been a comparable material turn in Australia and New Zealand historical studies. It chart the contours of that scholarship, drawing on the author’s own work and selected st…
Matter in Place
Editorial
Developing “The Essentials of Good Citizenship and Responsibilities” in Maori Women
New Zealand’s welfare state made unprecedented provision for the indigenous people of New Zealand. The Department of Maori Affairs employed Maori welfare officers to inculcate “the essentials of good citizenship and responsibilities” and to promote social change in a period when Maori were becoming one of the most highly urbanized indigenous peoples in the world. Female Maori welfare officers worked with women and children, devoting attention to …
The Material Culture of Welfare in Aotearoa/New Zealand
In recent years historians have become interested in the cultural history of welfare. In this paper I examine an often overlooked aspect of its material culture: the role and function of clothing. Drawing on examples from encounters between families and state welfare workers in the twentieth century where the clothing of children in particular constitutes part of the definition of ‘need’, I explore how clothing can be written into the histories o…
Amiria Henare, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange
xix+323This wide-ranging and ambitious book will be essential reading for those interested in the history of museums, material culture, anthropological thought, settler-indigenous relations and migration.It offers a series of rich and stimulating narratives through an original analysis of material culture and anthropological exchange between two countries that are not usually brought into comparison so directly.Henare demonstrates the way that Sc…
Matter in Place
Editorial
Material Histories in Australia and New Zealand
Many scholars have observed that we have recently witnessed a ‘material turn’, a term which acknowledges the broad interest over a range of social science and humanities disciplines in material culture, objects or stuff, however it is named. This article asks whether there has been a comparable material turn in Australia and New Zealand historical studies. It chart the contours of that scholarship, drawing on the author’s own work and selected st…
Expanding fashion exhibition history and theory
New Zealand museums, as opposed to art galleries, have been slow to exhibit fashion. Instead, fashion and decorative arts were part of human history collections and displays, emphasizing the country’s colonial heritage. Yet museums have increasingly focused on fashion as a distinctive mode of display. This article traces the story of fashion and its display at New Zealand’s national museum since 1950. It extends the notion of ‘fashion’ to include…
Women “Making History” in Museums
This article examines three remarkable New Zealand women, Nancy Adams, Rose Reynolds, and Edna Stephenson, who, as honorary or part-time staff, each began the systematic collecting and display of colonial history at museums in Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland in the 1950s. Noting how little research has been published on women workers in museums, let alone women history curators, it offers an important correction to the usual story of the h…
Introduction
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Aotearoa (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)