‘Thanks, But We'll Take It from Here’: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women Influencing the Collection of Tangible and Intangible Heritage

Robinson, Olivia; Barnard, Trish

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0033.2007.00621.x

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“…They are manifest in the intimacies created and maintained in symbolic relations of kinship – ‘maybe they see me as motherly’– and other extended forms such as Nokomis (grandmother), aunties and sisters (see Anderson, 2011). As described in Lobo’s (2009) analysis of ‘urban clan mothers’ in the San Francisco Bay Area, Auxiliary women acted as extended family, as sources of information about cultural matters and community activities, fostered ‘a sense of collective responsibility and hospitality, which are expressions of a strongly-held cultural ideal’, and provided ‘welcoming anchors in the otherwise highly fluid and complex urban Indian community’ (see also Robinson and Barnard, 2007, for an Australian parallel).…”

Section: From Collection To Community: the Women’s Auxiliarymentioning

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From collection to community to collections again: Urban Indigenous women, material culture and belonging

Krmpotich

Howard‐Bobiwash

Knight

2016

Journal of Material Culture

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First Story Toronto -a community organization dedicated to the Indigenous histories of Toronto, Canada -is steward to a collection of items mostly made and collected during the 20th century. With origins in the Anglican Church Women, the collection reflects a time when policies and actions of the state and churches internalized colonial processes within Canada. Yet the donation of the ACW material to a Native woman and housing advocate in 1976 hints at the shifting political and cultural contexts of this collection. Native crafts were used by Indigenous women in the city in displays of both Indigenous sovereignty and multiculturalism. Recently, the collection has been taken up by another group of Indigenous women in the Memory, Meaning-Making and Collections project. Handling sessions with artefacts and 'talking circles', initially designed to research the role of objects in collective memory and life-history processes, have been appropriated by the participating seniors toward their own goals. The collection has become a source of continuing education, sparking the women to teach and learn beadwork and quillwork; compare life experiences among urban Indigenous people; question history-making processes; and visit museum stores to handle collections and learn with curators. The histories intersecting with this collection thus push back against a range of tropes, provide more nuanced insights into

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Section: From Collection To Community: the Women’s Auxiliarymentioning

confidence: 99%

From collection to community to collections again: Urban Indigenous women, material culture and belonging

Krmpotich

Howard‐Bobiwash

Knight

2016

Journal of Material Culture

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“…Some of these have been 'virtual' museum spaces (Pollock, 2007) and others included collections of artefacts to represent women's activist histories (Bartlett et al, 2007), as well as online resources (Chidgey, 2012). Other work has examined questions of how different social actors can have, and have had, an influence on the creation of archives and the preservation of cultural heritage, such as Olivia Robinson and Trish Barnard's work, which looks at Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and how they have sought to influence the collection of both tangible and intangible heritage (Robinson and Barnard, 2010). This work also now extends to reflections by curators on the difficulties, for example, of the curation of a male same-sex exhibition (Petry, 2010).…”

Section: Gender Heritage Curation and Managementmentioning

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

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“…Por otro lado, hay que tener en cuenta el papel de la mujer como transmisora del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de forma general, en expresiones culturales de categorías diversas (Moghadam y Bagheritari, 2007;Robinson y Barnard, 2007). De esta forma, resulta evidente la relación entre feminidad y supervivencia de comunidad (Bakas, 2007), ya que son las mujeres indígenas quienes mantienen su identidad cultural y la perspectiva de género mediante expresiones culturales y artísticas (Robinson y Barnard, 2007). El vínculo entre artesanías, comunidad y espacio es inherente, ya que son un reflejo de la memoria colectiva que tiene relieve intergeneracional y, por lo tanto, marcan la identidad de los pueblos (Hwang y Huang, 2019).…”

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Las tejedoras mayas de Guatemala: un proceso activo para la salvaguardia de su patrimonio cultural inmaterial

Almela¹,

Calvet²

2020

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Currently, many are the phenomena that occur around intangible cultural heritage (ICH), related to its politics and legacy. With a critical analysis perspective, this article aims to describe the processes of patrimonialisation, commodification, and touristification of ICH, especially of the Guatemalan Mayan fabrics. The ongoing movement of Guatemalan weavers to protect and vindicate the cultural value of this art brings to light the role of different actors that intervene in intangible cultural heritage and, of greater relevance, indigenous communities. The following analysis framework on the diverse conceptualisations of heritage, authenticity, commodification and touristification allows for a deeper understanding of the Mayan weavers’ situation. The methodology used in this article consists on a case study, through which the following main conclusions arise: the lack of protection of ICH of this case study given the complex definitions and categorisations; the need to identify the consequences of commodification and touristification of ancestral tapestries, highlighting the importance of tourism management from the communities; and, finally, the key role of women as transmitters and protectors of ICH, who have headed a process of movement and empowerment.

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‘Thanks, But We'll Take It from Here’: Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women Influencing the Collection of Tangible and Intangible Heritage

Cited by 7 publications

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From collection to community to collections again: Urban Indigenous women, material culture and belonging

From collection to community to collections again: Urban Indigenous women, material culture and belonging

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

Las tejedoras mayas de Guatemala: un proceso activo para la salvaguardia de su patrimonio cultural inmaterial

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