‘Only the best is good enough for eternity’: Revisiting the ethnography of T. G. H. Strehlow

Gibson, Jason

doi:10.22459/gea.09.2017.10

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“…Strehlow had been born at the Hermannsburg Mission in 1908 and grown up conversant in Arrernte and its related languages. Later in life he used these skills to help him record and document the most treasured songs, mythologies, dances and rituals of central Australian men (Gibson 2017;Hill 2003;Jones 2004).…”

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‘You’re my kwertengerl’: transforming models of care for central Australian aboriginal museum collections

Gibson

2018

Museum Management and Curatorship

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This article provides ethnographic insights into the ways in which museums are being engaged with and positioned by some Aboriginal people in Central Australia. At the centre of this analysis is the stated suggestion of some Anmatyerr and Arrernte men that museums be incorporated into their social-cultural frameworks and thus brought into their systems of relating. Drawing upon endeavours to return and repatriate key central Australian collections, I reveal the complex relationship between these communities, collecting institutions and their staff. This research also highlights the agency of Anmatyerr and Arrernte people in their dealings with the ethnographer and collector, T.G.H. Strehlow, and shows how they now wish to encompass museums and other collecting institutions in a relationship founded upon complementary roles and responsibilities. Their interest in positioning the museum as a kwertengerl, meaning a 'manager' or 'worker' that upholds the interests of traditional owners, presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the relevant institutions.

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Section: The Strehlow Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘You’re my kwertengerl’: transforming models of care for central Australian aboriginal museum collections

Gibson

2018

Museum Management and Curatorship

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Ronald and Catherine Berndt’s Fieldwork Drawings: Material Sites of Ethnographic Encounter

Ridhuan

2022

Anthropological Forum

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‘Factotum and friend’: Anthropologists, informants and ethnographic exchange in central Australia

Gibson

2019

History and Anthropology

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‘Only the best is good enough for eternity’: Revisiting the ethnography of T. G. H. Strehlow

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

‘You’re my kwertengerl’: transforming models of care for central Australian aboriginal museum collections

‘You’re my kwertengerl’: transforming models of care for central Australian aboriginal museum collections

Ronald and Catherine Berndt’s Fieldwork Drawings: Material Sites of Ethnographic Encounter

‘Factotum and friend’: Anthropologists, informants and ethnographic exchange in central Australia

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