Nawi—Exploring Australia's Indigenous Watercraft
Cultural resurgence through museums and Indigenous communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7562839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Gapp (Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), Stephen Gapps (0000-0002-2540-8251, Australian National Maritime Museum, corresponding author), Mariko Smith (0000-0003-4680-8083, The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 87-102 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/117718011501100201 |
| OpenAlex | W1484887135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper describes the Australian National Maritime Museum's Indigenous watercraft project, conceived by its curators due to the lacking presence of Australia's first mariners and their vessels in cultural institutions and academic scholarship. The Nawi project aims to align with best-practice in Indigenous Australian museological policy to better facilitate strong Indigenous cultural futures, rather than dwell in an Indigenous past. Nawi participants built a dynamic picture of Indigenous watercraft culture today that is open to all nuances and complexities in Indigenous Australian (post)colonial experiences and identity, without privileging authenticity of unbroken connection over cultural resurgence. This paper also raises issues about authenticity faced by cultural institutions regarding Indigenous watercraft replicas. It concludes with a discussion about the concept of “community”, and how the Nawi project emphasizes its importance in cultural practice today through the lens of the amazing array of watercraft of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Indigenous · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Watercraft · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Engineering · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |