Decolonizing Conservation
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3rd Century Bce
Arapata Hakiwai
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clandon
Clandon Park
community-led heritage preservation
cultural repatriation
Dja Dja Wurrung
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ethnographic conservation
Golden Eyes
heritage management
houses
indigenous knowledge systems
John Marsh
Kohanga Reo
Linden Museum
Lord Onslow
Mana Taonga
maori
Maori Community
Marae Atea
meeting
museum studies
national
ngati
Ngati Ranana
park
ranana
stakeholder engagement
Tama Te Kapua
Te Arawa
Te Rangi
Te Roro
Te Wairoa
Tokomaru Bay
trust
UK Government Adviser
Waahi Tapu
wairoa
War Times
Young Men
Zealand Historic Places Trust
Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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- ISBN 9781598743104
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2008
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors examine conservation activities at Maori marae—meeting houses—located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred structure is a key example of community based conservation that can be replicated in heritage practice around the world.
Dean Sully is Lecture in Conservation at University College London Institute of Archaeology and National Trust Advisor for the Conservation of Archaeological Artefacts. He previously served as conservator at the National Heritage Board Singapore, Museum of London, and the British Museum. Sully is author of over 15 articles on conservation topics.
