Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web

What is the value of heritage? A source of explosive emotions which oppose the “value” of so-called Western expertise – history of social and human sciences and constant reevaluation of the heritage market – versus the values in “becoming” of the people who recognise themselves in this heritage and...

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Main Authors: Jessica De Largy Healy, Barbara Glowczewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2014-08-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3313
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spelling doaj-51661cb37ad048bd9a4802d33db82b5f2021-09-16T01:45:55ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402014-08-01132Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide WebJessica De Largy Healy0Barbara Glowczewski1Musée du quai Branly, CREDOCNRS, LAS-TransOceanikWhat is the value of heritage? A source of explosive emotions which oppose the “value” of so-called Western expertise – history of social and human sciences and constant reevaluation of the heritage market – versus the values in “becoming” of the people who recognise themselves in this heritage and who claim it as a foundation for an alternative and better life? In this paper, we examine some of the ways in which different groups in the Pacific reinterpret their heritage in order to redefine their singular values as cultural subjectivities: individual, collective and national, diasporic or transnational in the case of some Indigenous networks (Festival of the Pacific Arts, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, etc).https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3313
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author Jessica De Largy Healy
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Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
author_facet Jessica De Largy Healy
Barbara Glowczewski
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title Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
title_short Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
title_full Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
title_fullStr Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
title_full_unstemmed Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web
title_sort indigenous and transnational values in oceania: heritage reappropriation, from museums to the world wide web
publisher James Cook University
series eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
issn 1448-2940
publishDate 2014-08-01
description What is the value of heritage? A source of explosive emotions which oppose the “value” of so-called Western expertise – history of social and human sciences and constant reevaluation of the heritage market – versus the values in “becoming” of the people who recognise themselves in this heritage and who claim it as a foundation for an alternative and better life? In this paper, we examine some of the ways in which different groups in the Pacific reinterpret their heritage in order to redefine their singular values as cultural subjectivities: individual, collective and national, diasporic or transnational in the case of some Indigenous networks (Festival of the Pacific Arts, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, etc).
url https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3313
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