Notice catalographique « Preserving what is valued : an analysis of museum conservation and First Nations perspectives »
- Titre
- Preserving what is valued : an analysis of museum conservation and First Nations perspectives
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Clavir, Miriam
- Lieu de publication
- Leicester
- Maison d'édition
- University of Leicester
- Date de publication
- 1997
- Collation
- 499 p.
- Résumé
- This research examines the values attached to preserving heritage objects from the perspectives of First Nations, principally in British Columbia, Canada, and compares these with values in museums conservation. Underlying this study is a question in conservation ethics: what are the parameters involved in preserving not only the physical integrity of ethnographic objects in museum collections but their conceptual integrity as well. This study begins by examining the construction of the meaning of conservation and context in museums. It discusses how the profession of conservation developed out of its anticedent, restoration, and came to hold some of the values it does, focussing especially on two values found neither in most early restoration nor in many Native perspectives on preservation: the importance of science, and of preserving the physical integrity of object. It also includes an introduction to the indigenous peoples of the Northwest coast and the Interior of B.C.
- Notes
- Dissertation (Ph.D) - University of Leicester, 1997
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- Museum conservation methods
- Cultural property - Protection - Canada
- Indigenous peoples of North America - Canada - Antiquities
- Biens culturels - Protection - Canada
- Musées - Méthodes de conservation
- Pays
- United Kingdom
- Type de document
- Monograph = Monographie
- Localisation
- E 78 B9 C48
- Clé
- 11489
- Collection
- Catalogue