{"product_id":"ceremony-men","title":"Ceremony Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRethinks the role of Indigenous and non-Indigenous interactions in the production of ethnographic museum collections.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 W.K. Hancock Prize presented by the Australian Historical Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards in the Australian History Category presented by the Australian Prime Minister and Minister for the Arts \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award presented by the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA), a section of the American Anthropological Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy analyzing one of the world's greatest collections of Indigenous song, myth, and ceremony-the collections of linguist\/anthropologist T. G. H. Strehlow-\u003ci\u003eCeremony Men\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how inextricably intertwined ethnographic collections can become in complex historical and social relations. In revealing his process to return an anthropological collection to Aboriginal communities in remote central Australia, Jason M. Gibson highlights the importance of personal rapport and collaborations in ethnographic exchange, both past and present, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of sociality, relationship, and orality when Indigenous peoples encounter museum collections today. Combining forensic historical analysis with contemporary ethnographic research, this book challenges the notion that anthropological archives will necessarily become authoritative or dominant statements on a people's cultural identity. Instead, Indigenous peoples will often interrogate and recontextualize this material with great dexterity as they work to reintegrate the documented into their present-day social lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy theorizing the nature of the documenter-documented relationships this book makes an important contribution to the simplistic postcolonial generalizations that dominate analyses of colonial interaction. A story of local agency is uncovered that enriches our understanding of the human engagements that took, and continue to take, place within varying colonial relations of Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410443784536,"sku":"9781438478548","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438478548.jpg?v=1777896063","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ceremony-men","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}