South Pacific Museums : Experiments in Culture.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 01 Experiments in culture: An introduction -- NEW MUSEUMS -- 02 Reforming nationhood: The free market and biculturalism at Te Papa -- 03 Museums of New Caledonia: The old, the new and the balance of the two -- 04 Contested sites of identity and the cult of the new: The Centre Culturel Tjibaou and the constitution of culture in New Caledonia -- 05 National Museum of Australia -- 06 Pluralism and exhibition practice at the National Museum of Australia -- 07 Melbourne Museum -- 08 Civic laboratories: Museums, cultural objecthood and the governance of the social -- NEW KNOWLEDGES -- 09 Museums as cultural guardians -- 10 The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa -- 11 There's so much in looking at those barks: Dja Dja Wurrung etchings 2004-05 -- 12 Gab Titui Cultural Centre -- 13 The museum as cultural agent: The Vanuatu Cultural Centre extension worker program -- 14 Tuning the museum: The harmonics of official culture -- 15 Bunjilaka -- 16 Very special treatment -- 17 Hiroshima mon amour: Representation and violence in new museums of the Pacific -- 18 The Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira -- 19 The National Museum of Australia as danse macabre: Baroque allegories of the popular -- 20 The Museum of Sydney -- 21 How style came to matter: Do we need to move beyond the politics of representation? -- 22 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image -- 23 Spirit house.

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