Challenging History in the Museum explores work with difficult, contested and sensitive heritages in a range of museum contexts. It is based on the Challenging History project, which brings together a wide range of heritage professionals, practitioners and academics to explore h…
Collection of essays that consider archaeology as a global project that must attend to the cultural, political, and historical specificity of archaeological sites, while also taking into account transnational questions of human rights and heritage preserv.
Informed by the voices of Indigenous authors, this book documents the development of a new form of archaeology, one that is shaped by the values and independence of Indigenous peoples.
"Rethinking settler colonialism focuses on the long history of contact between indigenous peoples and the white colonial communities who settled in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. It interrogates how histories of colonial settlement have been mythologis…
From the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, European-Australians were actively recording, documenting and collecting Aboriginal heritage. This book examines how they did this, exploring perceptions of authenticity and innovation in Aboriginal heritage and ap…
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art ... The essays, by fourteen experts in the field, discuss Indigenous comtemporary art practices and their artworld reception in different locales in Australia…