期刊名称:SAA Archaeological Record, The : The magazine of the Society for American Archaeology
印刷版ISSN:1532-7299
出版年度:2008
卷号:8
期号:2
页码:21-21
出版社:Society for American Archaeology
摘要:Archives have long been ambivalent places for Indigenous
communities whose cultural materials are held in their
storerooms. Since the 1990s many archives and museums
have signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs)
with Indigenous groups in order to facilitate increased access to
and the repatriation of materials and to reanimate the curatorial
terrain. However, even with these moves aimed at reconciliation
and community building, archives remain inaccessible to
many Indigenous people due to distance, linguistic and educational
barriers, and poverty (Dyson et al. 2007). At the same time
as museums and other institutions began to actively collaborate
with Indigenous communities on issues of archival collection
process and curation practices, the possibilities for expanding
modes of search, retrieval, and archiving information have been
enlivened by digital technologies and robust search engines like
Google.