Sharing Authority in the Museum: Distributed objects, reassembled relationships

Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Focussing on Māori objects, predominantly originating from the Ngā Paerangi tribe, housed in Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the book examines the□nuances of cross-cultural interactions between an indigenous community and an anthropological museum.

Analysis centres on the legacy of historic ethnographic collecting on indigenou...