Museum as Process

The museum has become a vital strategic space for negotiating ownership of and access to knowledge produced in local settings. This volume presents community-engaged "culture work" of a group of scholars whose collaborative projects consider the social spaces between the museum and community and offer new ways of addressing the challenges of bridging the local and the global. Scholars from around the world describe their engagement with communities in Australia, Canada, Ghana, Great Britain, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan and the United States.

1. Introduction: Museum as Process Raymond A. Silverman 2. Indigenous Ontologies, Digital Futures: Plural Provenances and the Kwakwaka'wakw Collection in Berlin and Beyond Aaron Glass 3. Wampum Unites Us: Digital Access, Interdisciplinarity and Indigenous Knowledge-Situating the GRASAC Knowledge Sharing Database Heidi Bohaker, Alan Ojiig Corbiere and Ruth B. Phillips 4. Projectishare.com: Sharing Our Past, Collecting for the Future Jennifer Shannon 5. Open Access Versus the Culture of Protocols Howard Morphy 6. The Veracity of Form: Transforming Knowledges and their Forms in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea Joshua A. Bell 7. Translating Knowledge: Uniting Alutiiq People With Heritage Information Sven Haakanson, Jr. 8. From Entangled Objects to Engaged Subjects: Knowledge Translation and Cultural Heritage Regeneration Lea S. McChesney 9. The Price of Knowledge and the Economies of Heritage in Zuni, New Mexico Gwyneira Isaac 10. Public History in Alexandra: Facing the Challenges of Tourism and Struggle Heroization Noor Nieftagodien 11. The Culture Bank: Micro-Credit, Living Objects and Community Development in West Africa Todd Vincent Crosby 12. Locating Culture with/in a Ghanaian Community Raymond A. Silverman 13. Communities and Museums-Equal Partners? Sheila Watson 14. Challenging Museum Sustainability: Governance, Community Participation and the Fickle Political Climate in Southern Luzon (Philippines) Towns Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador 15. Ko Tawa: where are the glass cabinets? Paul Tapsell 16. The Interrogative Museum Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz