Collections in the Expanded Field
Relationality and the Provenance of Artefacts and Archives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5818291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Jones (0000-0002-5448-8799, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 884-897 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Heritage (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2571-9408 • E-ISSN: 2571-9408 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/heritage2010059 |
| OpenAlex | W2922504680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
In 2017 archaeological evidence was published which indicates that modern humans first arrived in Australia around 65,000 years ago. Through the countless generations since, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples built deep connections to the landscape, developed rich material culture infused with story and myth, and used oral and ceremonial traditions to transmit knowledge over thousands of years. Yet, since European invasion at the end of the eighteenth century, the provenance of ethnographic and institutional collections has largely been documented with reference to white collectors and colonial institutions. Attitudes are starting to change. Recent decades have seen significant moves away from the idea of the authoritative institution toward relational museums and the co-creation of knowledge. But the structure and content of much museum documentation continues to lag behind contemporary attitudes. This paper looks at the documentation of Australian ethnographic and anthropological collections through the lens of changing perspectives on provenance, including archival notions of parallel and societal provenance. When placed in the context of recent developments in material culture theory, these collections help to highlight the limitations of existing documentation. The paper concludes with a call for community involvement and a more relational approach to documentation which better encompasses the complexities of provenance and the entangled institutional, archival, oral, and community perspectives that accumulate around artefacts in museums
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Museum Materialities
The Social Life of Things
Notes and queries on anthropology
Museums And Source Communities
The Order of Things
Local archives and community collecting in the digital age
The concept of societal provenance and records of nineteenth-century Aboriginal–European relations in Western Canada
A Case of Identity
A Shield Loaded with History
The political rationality of the museum
Knowing Things
The informed muse
Sculpture in the Expanded Field
The Pillage of Prehistory
The Cultural Interface
Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions in Digital Environments
Entangled
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |