Museums and Source Communities: A Routledge Reader

The thirteen essays in this volume record a shift in the collaborative relationship between museums and the `source communities’ from which collections derive. The contributions highlight case studies from North America, the Pacific and the UK as they discuss and debate this two-way process which involves the exchange and sharing of ideas, knowledge and power. The essays are divided into three key areas, highlighting the museum as a field site or `contact zone’ between museum and source communities, the use of photography in museums as a form of `visual repatriation’, and the role of exhibitions and collaborative projects that have challenged traditional attitudes and practices. Six of the essays are reprinted articles.