This Handbook will explore diverse contemporary topics that reflect the variety of heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand, with topics ranging over cultural and natural heritage, the arts and culture, GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), public history, and the natural environment. The chapters in this book all have some relationship with people and place, or with Aotearoa New Zealand's shared history and the impact of/response to a colonial legacy. They will explore the conflict and tensions which arise in contemporary debates about postsettler history, national identity, and popular culture. Within this framework of land, Mori and settler/migrant peoples, authors consider the conflict, problems and tensions which arise from settler-colonial violence, post settler history and a fractious national identity. The book will focus on issues that connect to the relationship with indigenous people and the land through the Treaty of Waitangi/Tiriti o Waitangi. It asks: Who are we and what does it mean to live here, as tangata whenua (people of the land) and tangata tiriti (people of the Treaty)? How has our heritage shaped and been shaped by our relationship to each other and to the land?
Chapter
1. Whakapoko/Inter-Cultural Heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand:
An Introduction.- Part I: Te Whenua / Land.
Chapter
2. Te Whenua / Land: An
Introduction.
Chapter
3. 1 + 1 = 3: An Introduction to Interculturalism.-
Chapter
4. Ng Pakiaka Morehu o te Whenua: The Surviving Roots: Reclaiming
Space Post-Treaty Settlement.
Chapter
5. Heritage and the Colonial Project.-
Chapter
6. Coastal Heritage, Climate Change and Community-centred Action.-
Chapter
7. Te Ara o Raukawa Moana: Active Kaitiakitanga in Response to
Climate Change.
Chapter
8. Heritage, Museums, and Climate Change: A
Conversation with Huhana Smith.
Chapter
9. Re-remembering Te
Whanganui-a-Tara: Pukeahu National War Memorial Park.
Chapter
10. Aotearoa
New Zealands Leading Role on the World Heritage Stage: Advancing the
Meaningful Participation of Indigenous Peoples and Communities.
Chapter
11.
Aotearoa is My Trangawaewae: Unearthing Resistance of Banaban Youth,
Displacement, and Belonging in the Pacific.
Chapter
12. Mauri and Museums:
Integrating Mori Cultural Values into MuseumsLessons from Environmental
Management.-Part II: Taonga, Objects, Knowledges and Practices.
Chapter
13.
Taonga, Objects, Knowledges and Practices: An Introduction.
Chapter
14.
Tongan Talatupua/Fananga: Breathing Life Into Archival Myth/Legend
Collections.
Chapter
15. Ka hao te mhio hei mtauranga p tauremu /
Gathering knowing and knowledge in stone fish traps: The 100th anniversary of
the Dominion Museum Ethnological Expedition to Te Tairwhiti 1923.
Chapter
16. Connecting Lines: Mekeo PoapoaSkin Marking Practice as Embodied
Knowledge.
Chapter
17. Te Reo Mori: Revitalisation and Usage of Mori
Language in New Zealand Museums.-
18. Whiria Hei Taonga Koiora: Mori Weaving
as Intercultural Pedagogy.
Chapter
19. A Pounamu Journey: Transformation
through Indigenous Curation.
Chapter
20. Creating Intercultural Spaces
Abroad: A Comparative Study of a Mori Exhibition in France, Mexico and
Canada.
Chapter
21. Repatriation of Human Remains as a Postcolonial Museum
Practice: Creating Mutual Understanding, Dialogue and Exchange Between
Aotearoa and France.- Part III: He Tangata/People.
Chapter
22. He
Tangata/People: An Introduction.
Chapter
23. Delinking Across Indigeneity: A
Conversation Between Walter Mignolo and Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
Chapter
24.
Tuia: Relationships Through Time, Place, Practice and People.
Chapter
25.
New Zealands Wars: Military Heritage and History in Aotearoa New Zealand
Since the Nineteenth Century.
Chapter
26. Local Museums and the Aotearoa New
Zealand Histories Curriculum.
Chapter
27. Ration the Queens Veges: Te Papa,
Te Tiriti, and the Failure of the Bicultural Model.
Chapter
28.
Tukana/Tina: Relations Between Wider Pacific Tangata Tiriti and Tangata
Whenua.
Chapter
29. An-other Politics: Asian Philosophies and Te Tiriti o
Waitangi.
Chapter
30. A Slow Harvest: Building an Aotearoa Asian Art
Archive.
Chapter
31. Bright the sky above.
Chapter 32 Kupu
Whakamutu/Afterwords.- He Krero An/Appendices.- Ng Kupu Mori/Glossary.-
Ng Kaupapa Nunui/Index.
Conal McCarthy is Director of the Museum & Heritage Studies programme at the Stout Research Centre, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. In his professional museum career he has worked in collections, exhibitions, education, interpretation, governance and curatorial roles. He has published widely on museum history, theory and practice, including the books Exhibiting Mori (2007), Museums and Maori (2011), and Museum Practice (2015), volume 2 of The International Handbooks of Museum Studies (Wiley Blackwell). In 2018 he published the history of Te Papa, and in 2019 Curatopia: Museums and the future of research (co-edited with Philipp Schorch, Manchester University Press).
Michelle Horwood is a Teaching Fellow in Museum and Heritage Studies programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. She has an academic background in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies, and has worked at Ng Taonga Sound & Vision, Aotearoa New Zealands national audio visiual archive, as well as Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga and Whanganui Rgional Museum. Her doctoral research, focusing upon building relationships between indigenous communities and museums, was published in the Routledge Museums in Focus series in 2019, Sharing Authority in the Museum: Distributed Objects, Reassembled Relationships.
Awhina Tamarapa (Ngti Kahungunu, Ngti Ruanui and Ngti Pikiao), an experienced museum curator, researcher, consultant and writer, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stout Research Centre at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. She has a PhD in Museum and Heritage Studies examining taonga kkahu (cloaks and other textiles) in museum collections and the ongoing maintenance and revitalisation of weaving in the community. She has curated major exhibitions at Te Papa, and edited accompanying catalogues. In 2018 she was awarded the Mina McKenzie award by Museums Aotearoa.
Kolokesa Uaf Mhina-Tuai, MNZM is a cultural champion and mediator, curator and writer. She is of Tongan heritage with ancestral links to Smoa and Fiji. Kolokesa was curator of Moana Oceania cultures at Te Papa (2004-2008) and Tmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum (2013-2017). She currently works with Tolumaanave Barbara Makuati-Afitu, of Samoan heritage, for Lagi-Maama Academy and Consultancy, an educational and cultural organisation they co-founded in 2018. In 2022 Kolokesa was awarded the honour of Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit For services to cultures and the arts.
