Ceremony men : making ethnography and the return of the Strehlow collection /

Ceremony Men is an account of one scholar's attempt to return an anthropological collection to Aboriginal communities in remote central Australia. In revealing his process, Jason M. Gibson highlights the importance of personal rapport and collaborations in ethnographic exchange, both past and p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gibson, Jason (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Series:	Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.
Subjects:	Strehlow, T. G. H. > (Theodor George Henry), > 1908-1978. Strehlow Research Centre. Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities > Collection and preservation. Australia > Antiquities > Collection and preservation. Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects > Australia. Ethnology > Australia.

Table of Contents:

Archive and field
Early Alhernter encounters
Strehlow's scope
A balancing act
Urrempel man
Declarations of relatedness
The intermingling of intimate narratives
"Your'e my Kwertengerl"
Conclusion.