Heritage Matters: Culture and Development in the Pacific

遗产问题：太平洋地区的文化与发展

• 批准号: AH/P007538/1
• 负责人: Nicholas Thomas
• 金额: $ 10.25万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP007538%2F1
• 关键词: Heritage; Matters; Culture; Development; Pacific

Museums in the Pacific region have the potential to play a vital role in the sustainable development of their nations. They are associated with the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage, and have the capacity to communicate customary knowledge of the environment, and local approaches to resource management, work, value and social relations. But they are also institutions of civil society, able to support education and community cohesion. Heritage, in the Pacific, is not exclusively past practice, but the negotiation of identity and the attachment to place in the context of the economic and environmental challenges of the present. While universal models of heritage and of museums are not necessarily appropriate to Pacific settings, museums can constitute spaces of engagement and partnership, in which local values and accomplishments are foregrounded. Already institutions in which culture is represented and celebrated, they have the capacity to become places in which local approaches to the future, including prospective engagement with NGOs and donor nations, are assessed and explored. This pilot project will focus on two museums within the Pacific: the Solomon Islands National Museum in Honiara, and the Kiribati Cultural Centre in Tarawa. The project will aim to exemplify partnership, as opposed to donor-led, approaches to cultural heritage development projects, and will produce a report and journal articles, outlining the specific needs and goals of each museum, that could be addressed through larger, future projects. The project's comparative orientation aims to draw attention to the heterogeneity of Pacific settings, and hence suggest ways of assessing the extent to which successful approaches may or may not be transferable.The project will contribute to making displays and testing public and community engagement programs based in the two museums that are socially purposeful, effective and sustainable. The project will also make a concrete contribution to the development of professional capacity in Kiribati and the Solomon Islands, through the Indigenous internships offered, and through cross-cultural knowledge exchange between project staff, museum staff, consulted experts, and local people.The project will result in journal articles targeting scholarly and practitioner communities in anthropology, development studies, cultural policy studies, museum and heritage studies, and Pacific studies, and will generate reports for each of the museums, their stakeholders and for organisations with related interests, that will provide a basis for future work.

太平洋地区的博物馆有潜力在其国家的可持续发展中发挥重要作用。它们与保护物质和非物质遗产有关，并有能力传播关于环境的传统知识，以及当地对资源管理、工作、价值和社会关系的做法。但它们也是民间社会的机构，能够支持教育和社区凝聚力。在太平洋地区，遗产不仅仅是过去的做法，而是在当前经济和环境挑战的背景下就身份和对地方的依恋进行的谈判。虽然普遍的遗产和博物馆模式不一定适合太平洋地区的环境，但博物馆可以成为参与和伙伴关系的空间，突出地方价值观和成就。这些机构已经是代表和庆祝文化的机构，它们有能力成为评估和探索地方未来办法的场所，包括与非政府组织和捐助国的未来接触。这一试点项目将侧重于太平洋地区的两个博物馆：霍尼亚拉的所罗门群岛国家博物馆和塔拉瓦的基里巴斯文化中心。该项目将致力于在文化遗产开发项目中采用伙伴关系而不是捐助者主导的方法，并将编写一份报告和期刊文章，概述每个博物馆的具体需求和目标，这些需求和目标可通过今后更大的项目加以解决。该项目的比较方向旨在引起人们对太平洋地区环境异质性的关注，并因此提出评估成功方法可转让或不可转让程度的方法。该项目将有助于在两个博物馆中进行展示和测试具有社会目的、有效和可持续性的公众和社区参与计划。该项目还将通过提供土著实习机会，并通过项目工作人员、博物馆工作人员、咨询专家和当地人民之间的跨文化知识交流，为基里巴斯和所罗门群岛的专业能力发展做出具体贡献。博物馆与遗产研究、太平洋研究等，并将为每个博物馆、其利益相关者和相关组织编写报告，为今后的工作提供基础。