Nature, Natives, and Nations
Glorification and Asymmetries in Museum Representation, Fiji and Hawaii
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7285437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Kelly (0000-0002-7616-0321, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-216 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141840050076897 |
| OpenAlex | W2062219420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
The Fiji Museum and Hawaii's Bishop Museum research and represent local indigenes differently, and more extensively, than they do the culture and history of descendants of plantation laborers. While these museums connect Japanese-Hawaiians and Indo-Fijians to themes of economic struggle and multiculturalism, the erstwhile 'natives'are strongly, if implicitly, connected to 'nature.'Against Foucaultian approaches depicting museums as 'modern' institutions of classification, this argument locates museums with a liberal focus on nature, natives and nations (three conceptions, from the same Latin root, for self-constituting objects) as descendants of imperial museum projects, and finds not classification but glorification originally organizing museum representations. The politics of museum representation concern dilemmas in glorification, not classification. The asymmetries traced here follow local will as well as institutional design. Keywords: FijiHawaiiNationsMuseums
Geography · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2018 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |