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"The songline is alive in Mukurtu": Return, reuse, and respect
Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, p.153
Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication, 18, University of Hawaii Press
01/01/2019
Abstract
This chapter examines the return, reuse, and repositioning of archival materials within Indigenous communities and specifically within the Warumungu Aboriginal community in Central Australia. Over the last 20 years there has been an uptake in collecting institutions and scholars returning cultural, linguistic, and historical material to Indigenous communities in digital formats. These practices of digital return have been spurred by decolonisation and reconciliation movements globally, and at the same time catalysed by new technologies that allow for surrogates to be returned and concurrently reinvented, reused, and reimagined in community, kin-based, and place-based social and cultural networks. Examining the creation, use, and ongoing development of Mukurtu CMS, this article focuses on the implications for digital return as a type of repatriation that promotes decolonising strategies and reparative frameworks for engagement.
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- Title
- "The songline is alive in Mukurtu": Return, reuse, and respect
- Creators
- Kimberly Christen
- Publication Details
- Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, p.153
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Series
- Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication; 18
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Identifiers
- 99900669107401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter