ICME Ethnography - Ethnographie - Etnografia
International Committee for Museums of Ethnography -
ICOM/ICME http://icme.icom.museum
Contents:
- WORDS FROM THE PRESIDENT...
- ANNETTE FROMM. WELCOME TO THE ICME 2006
CONFERENCE IN MIAMI FLORIDA"CONNECTIONS, COMMUNITIES AND
COLLECTIONS"
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GUIDELINES FOR MUSEUMS
AND ARCHIVES
- UP-COMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
- WORDS FROM THE EDITOR
1. WORDS FROM THE PRESIDENT
I recently attended the ICOM advisory meeting in Paris, with
opportunities for discussion with many museum colleagues from
around the world - as well as for celebrating ICOM's 60th
anniversary. Let me share some of it with you:
Ethics, Intellectual property and Intangible Heritage were all
parts of a special session during the advisory meeting. On the
ethical side, ICOM-Sweden president Hans Manneby told about an
educational test project that has been arranged in his country.
Workshops have been organized various places in Sweden using a
series of stories entailing ethical dilemmas. Workshop
participants resolve these dilemmas through discussions on how the
ICOM code of ethics is relevant to each of the problems. Comments
from the floor after Manneby's presentation mentioned that such
workshops might be useful as models for ethics education also in
other countries. In order to help this along, Manneby promises
that full background on the workshops should soon be available in
English at http://sweden.icom.museum
Wend Wendland from WIPO gave a short introduction to Museums and
Intellectual Property Rights, explaining how awareness of such
rights might play key roles in relationships with source
communities, and with the world at large. Wendlands presentation
was lauded by many - not least by ICOM President Allesandra
Cummings and Executive Council members Amareswar Galla and Rick
West. This is a field where ICME has been in the forefront of
support, and where we should have a real interest in bringing
awareness of these issues into the general policies of our
museums. If you look below in this issue of ICME news, you can
learn how you can become involved!
Hongnam Kim introduced the new "International Journal of
Intangible Heritage". Dr. Kim is known to many of you as the
director of the National Folk Museum of Korea, which hosted ICME
during the 2004 Conference in Seoul. After the Conference, she and
her colleagues took the initiative to establish this journal, and
have managed to receive funding for publication from the Korean
Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The first issue contains 11
articles, many of which are expanded versions of papers presented
during the ICME sessions and the Concurrent sessions of the 2004
conference. The journal is available in printed form, but will
soon also be available for downloading from
www.ijih.org .
My congratulations to Dr. Kim and her staff!
Increasing communication between National and International ICOM
committees was also a discussion theme in Paris. One of the
reasons for this is that only around 1/3 of all ICOM members
belong to an international committee, even though international
committee activities are considered to be one of the most
important aspects of ICOM. A result of these discussions is that
ICOM-España and AAM/ICOM have both been in contact with me,
to try to find ways to increase the number of members in
international committees. ICME members should applaud initiatives
like this, and encourage their colleagues to join ICME - or other
international committees!
In addition, we should perhaps encourage each other to
PARTICIPATE more actively in ICME. Remember that it is not too
late to register for the 2006 ICME conference in Miami Beach. I
hope to see many of you in Florida, and look forward to our
discussions there. But remember, even if travel funding is
difficult to find, there are other ways of participating actively.
A few of the people who have had trouble receiving funding to
attend the conference will be sending "virtual"
presentations of various forms instead of presenting their papers
in person. Let's try to think about how we can better adapt the
structure of our conferences and activities in order to function
globally! Regards from
Daniel Winfree Papuga
president@icme.icom.museum
2. ANNETTE FROMM. WELCOME TO THE ICME
2006 CONFERENCE IN MIAMI FLORIDA"CONNECTIONS, COMMUNITIES AND
COLLECTIONS"
I would like to welcome all our ICME members who are able to
attend this year's annual conference in Miami Beach in July.
Sessions will be held at several different sites in the city - the
historic Deering Estate at Cutler, a 450 acre environmental,
archeological and historic preserve facing Biscayne Bay (www.deeringestate.org),
the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, the repository of the
history of our region in downtown Miami (www.historical-museum.org),
and the Wolfsonian-FIU, a design museum on the heart of the art
deco district of Miami Beach (www.wolfsonian.org).
Walking and bus tours will immerse participants in a few of the
many communities of this multicultural city
The chosen conference hotels - The Blue Moon (www.bluemoonsouthbeach.com)
and the Essex House - are two restored historic art deco hotels in
the heart of South Beach, close to beaches, shops, restaurants,
museums, and South Beach's famous clubs. We picked a location
where plenty of things are within walking distance of the hotels.
A great line-up of interesting papers has been ably organized
for the three days of the conference. I hope those who attend will
enjoy and learn from all that has been organized for this year's
meeting. If any one needs additional information before traveling
to Miami, don't hesitate to contact me at
secretary@icme.icom.museum
Looking forward to a successful conference -
Annette
ICME 2006 PROGRAM
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
SUNDAY - July 9
6:00 Pre-conference walking tour of Miami Beach's Art Deco
District, starting from the
Blue
Moon Hotel
MONDAY - July 10
Breakfast at hotels
Paper sessions at The Deering
Estate at Cutler
8:30 Bus to Deering Estate (45 minute drive)
9:30 Welcome
9:45-10:45 Tour of the historic Houses, Deering Estate at Cutler
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Session I
- Annette Fromm (USA) "Museums And Communities As Seen In
The Profession And In The History Of ICME"
- Daniel Winfree Papuga (Norway) "Connections and
collections through sixty years: ICME 1946-2006"
- W. Richard West, Jr. (USA) "National Museum of the
American Indian: Journeys in the Post-Colonial World"
12:15-1:45 Box lunch. Possibility for viewing "virtual"
presentations by participants who are not able to attend the
meeting in person. ICME board meeting.
1:45-3:00 Session II
- Baerbel Kerkhoff-Hader (Germany) "Museums for a Region:
Politics - Structures - Results"
- Galia Gavish (Israel) "The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court
Museum and community relations"
- Gene S. Tinnie (USA) "Miami's Historic Virginia Key
Beach Park: A Case Study of Community Vision and Collaboration"
3:00 Depart Deering Estate for Virginia Key Beach Park
5:00 Bus to Miami Beach hotels
Dinner on own
TUESDAY - July 11
Breakfast at hotels
9:45 Bus to Historical
Museum of Southern Florida, downtown Miami
10:00 Welcome, Steve Steumphle, Historical Museum of Southern
Florida
10:15-11:00 Tour of the Miami Beach exhibit
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session I
- Joanne Hyppolite (USA) "The Haitian Community Arts
Project at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida"
- Leif Pareli (Norway) "Indigenous Communities and Their
Museums: The Sami Example"
- Michael L Murray (USA) "The Museum Grounds as
Fairground: Creating Heterotopia in the Rockland County Folklife
Festival"
- Alexandra Trumbull (USA) "Peopling the Powwow: Community
Involvement in a Cultural Diorama"
12:30-1:30 Lunch on own in Downtown Miami
1:45-3:00 Session II
- Peter Bjerregaard (Denmark) "The Materiality of Museum
Politics: Reflections on objects and agency in contemporary
museum practice"
- Lidija Nikocevic (Croatia) "Discourses of continuity and
acceptance in Istria: collections of a disappearing community
and of an immigrant community"
- Jennifer Bonnell & Darryl Leroux (Canada) "Exploring
Difficult Knowledge: Two Case Studies of Swedish Museum Pedagogy"
3:00 Depart Historical Museum for Bus/walking tour of Little
Havana
6:00 Dinner at Versailles, Cuban restaurant
Bus to Miami Beach hotels
WEDNESDAY - July 12
Museum Visit and Community tour
Breakfast at hotels
9:00 Walk to Miami
Design Preservation League, Ocean Drive
9:15 Welcome
9:30-10:45 Session I
- Viv Golding (UK) "Recollection and the UK Museum:
Object, Image and Word"
- K.K. Chakravarty (India) "Museums for demuseumization"
- Joy Kuriakose (India) "The changing role of museums in
demuseumization"
- Landing Jarjue (Gambia) "Kachikally Museum And
Communities"
11:00 Depart, excursion to
Ah-Tha-Thi-Ki,
Seminole Museum, Big Cypress
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Museum visit
3:30 Depart Big Cypress, return to hotels
7:00 Farewell Dinner
July 13-15: ICME Post-Conference Tour
For further information, Contact Annette Fromm, ICME Secretary
3060 Alton Road, Miami Beach, Fl 33140 USA, Tel: +1 305-532-3530
secretary@icme.icom.museum
- or see the ICME2006 web pages at
http://icme.icom.museum
3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GUIDELINES FOR
MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES By Molly Torsen 1
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is
undertaking a project with the longer-term aim of developing
intellectual property (IP) guidelines, model agreements and best
practices, and a practical IP handbook, that could be used by
cultural institutions and professionals as a point of reference
for IP-related issues. This project commenced earlier this year
with an initial phase of fact-gathering, research and
consultations by several legal and cultural experts located in
different parts of the world and commissioned by WIPO. WIPO would
like to extend its gratitude to Mr. Daniel Papuga, President of
ICOM-ICME, for his invitation to inform ICME of this project.
Museums, archives, anthropologists, ethnologists and art
historians fulfill invaluable roles in preserving the rich
cultural heritage of our planet and in promoting a broader
understanding and respect for different cultures. From ancient
traditions to community histories, IP issues arise throughout the
process of collecting, cataloguing, studying, recording,
inventorying, presenting, conserving and presenting these
different aspects of culture. More and more often, cultural
institutions, indigenous communities and other stakeholders in
cultural heritage are seeking information and advice regarding
appropriate strategies that take relevant IP issues into account.
IP related guidelines, model agreements, best practices and a
practical IP handbook might assist cultural institutions and
professionals to recognize IP issues as they arise, determine
their IP related objectives, formulate IP options and, finally,
strategically manage IP issues in support of their broader and
valuable safeguarding and educational mandates. Clarifying IP
options is not intended to complicate the precious activities of
museums and others, but rather support and advance them. Of
particular interest is the management of collections of "traditional"
cultural expressions of which indigenous peoples and other local
communities are the customary custodians and which are often
regarded as "public domain" by current IP laws. This
project could also form a practical complement to various
national, regional and international initiatives aimed at
enhancing the protection of traditional cultural expressions
against misappropriation and illegitimate use, such as the
discussions taking place within WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee
on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional
Knowledge and Folklore.
The current phase of fact-gathering, research and consultations
is aimed at laying a solid and empirical foundation for any future
distillation of guidelines or best practices and the development
of a practical handbook. Many museums and institutions already
have IP-related codes, protocols and guidelines and well developed
IP policies and strategies. The best strategy would be to learn
from these documents and experiences. WIPO would therefore like to
encourage museums to share their institutional experiences, past
and present, in dealing with IP issues in their collection
management.
Institutional input is crucial and could include, but is by no
means is limited to the following, which may be sent to our
communal address heritage@wipo.int:
1)communication of the needs, aspirations and expectations of
ethnographic museums concerning intellectual property and the
protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural
expressions 2) comments on this article 3) contribution of case
studies, analyses, position papers, or white papers in response to
the issues raised in this article and the suggested guidelines 4)
information on known suitable resources, including on-line
materials, for online compilation (see below). Your help and input
is much appreciated!
As a first step, existing resources that museums and others
already use are being collated into an online resource to enable
the sharing of existing experiences.2 WIPO's project is committed
to learning from, collecting the experiences of and consulting
with any organizations, associations, communities and individuals
who would like to contribute to shaping sensible, practical and
equitable guidelines on some of these issues. The involvement of
ICOM would be of particular value and it is hoped that ICOM and
its various committees, such as ICME, will contribute to this
work. Not only are the actual concerns, experiences and
aspirations of museums central to this project, but, through
participation in it, museums can enter into new dialogues and
collaborations with each other in together exploring these
emerging issues.
Clarifying IP issues and options regarding cultural heritage has
great potential to strengthen synergies between the protection of
cultural documentation and its preservation, to enhance respect
for traditional cultures and to promote the wider exchange of
cultural expressions between the peoples and communities of this
culturally rich and diverse world. As the world becomes more and
more interconnected through broader knowledge bases and new
technologies, focusing on IP questions is becoming more and more
important. Cultural institutions and professionals could perhaps
benefit from being able to recognize and strategically manage IP
options and issues as they both preserve, protect and promote
cultural heritage.
A fuller description of the project will be contained in ICOM
News No. 2, 2006.
The consultants WIPO has commissioned are: Shubha Chaudhuri, a
linguist and Director of the Archives and Research Centre for
Ethnomusicology. Former board member of the International Council
of Traditional Music and Vice President of the International
Association of Sound and Audio Visual Archives. She is based in
New Delhi;
Laurella Rincon, a curator in non-western collections with a
background in art history, museology and anthropology and a
doctoral candidate on mutations of European museums of
ethnography, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-LSH), She
is an ICME member, and based in Paris;
Martin Skrydstrup, a doctoral candidate at the Dept. of
Anthropology, Columbia University and a board member of ICME
(International Committee of Ethnographic Museums) under ICOM. He
is based in New York;
Malia Talakai, a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Pacific
and Asian Studies, Department of Anthropology University of
Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her PhD research is on The Protection of
Tongan Traditional Cultural Expression and Expressions of
Folklore. She is based mainly in Auckland;
Molly Torsen, an attorney with a particular interest and
experience in intellectual property, cultural property and
traditional cultural expressions. She is currently working at the
International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), in
Washington DC.
The email address to use is heritage@wipo.int
through which all the consultants can be contacted.
Footnotes
- The author is an attorney with a particular interest and
experience in intellectual property, cultural property and
traditional cultural expressions. She is currently working at
the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI), in
Washington D.C. Ms. Torsen is one of the consultants
commissioned by WIPO to undertake this work. Any views expressed
in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of IIPI,
WIPO or any of its Member States. Many thanks to Wend Wendland
for his management of the WIPO project and for his contribution
to this piece for the ICME. Mr. Wendland is the Deputy Director,
Global Issues (Traditional Knowledge) Division, and Head,
Traditional Creativity and Cultural Expressions Section, World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland.
- See initial compilation at
http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/folklore/culturalheritage/introdatabase.html
UP-COMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
June 29 - July 2: "Steel Cities: Tradition, Transition and
Transformation", University of Sheffield, UK.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/natcect/steelcities
July 10-12: "Connections, Communities and Collections",
ICOM-ICME Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
http://icme.icom.museum
July 13-15: ICOM-ICME post-conference tour, Florida.
http://icme.icom.museum
July 23-29: "The Quality of Social Existence in a
Globalising World", 16th ISA World Congress of Sociology,
Durban, South-Africa.
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/
August 1: Deadline for ICOM travel grant applications for the
2007 ICOM General Conference in Vienna,Austria.
http://icom.museum/general_assembly.html
August 2: "Ethnographic Archives, Communities of Origin,
and Intangible Cultural Heritage", Society of American
Archivists Pre-Conference Symposium, Washington DC, USA.
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/SAASymposium/symposium.html
August 7-9 : "Diverse Cultures, Diverse Communications",
ICOM-MPR Annual Meeting, Nairobi, Kenya.
http://mpr.icom.museum
August 23 - 26: "Gateway to Progress: Balancing Best
Practices in Museums", Association of African American
Museums 2006 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
http://www.blackmuseums.org/
August 30 - September 2: "Cultural Encounters in Urban
Space", European Association of Urban Historians Annual
meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.historia.su.se/urbanhistory/eauh/invitation.htm
August 30 - September 4: "Museums and a sense of place",
ICOM-ICR Annual Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://icr.icom.museum
September 7-9: "'Of Asian Origin' : Rethinking Tourism In
Contemporary Asia", Singapore.
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/conf2006/tourism.htm
September 10-14: "Wider perspective - broader base",
Annual meeting of ICOM-CIDOC at The Museum of World Culture,
Gothenburg, Sweden. http://cidoc06.se/
September 11-16: "Documentation for conservation and
development: new heritage strategies for the future",
international Seminar of Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage,
Florence, Italy. www.fuupfirenze.net
September 4 - November 24: "8ème cours régional
sur la Conservation et la Gestion du Patrimoine Culturel ICOM
Immobiler", Porto-Novo, Bénin.
http://www.africa2009.net/francais/activites/cours/benin06.shtm
September 13-16, American Association for State and Local
History, Phoenix, Arizona, History's Enduring Voices,
www.aaslh.org
September 16 - 20: "Museums for Peace and Cultural
Diversity", Museum Tour and Conference in South Eastern
Europe. Organised by ICOM-Europe In Cooperation with
ICOM-Slovenia, ICOM-Croatia, ICOM-Bosnia- Herzegovina,
ICOM-Serbia-Montenegro, ICOM-SEE (Southeast Europe) and the
ICOM-Cross Cultural Task Force.
http://icom.museum/calendar2.html#europe
or http://www.icom-europe.org
September 18-21: "Europe and the world", European
Association of Social Anthropologists, 9th Bi-annual conference,
Bristol, UK. http://www.easaonline.org/
September 21-23: "The Best in Heritage",
International heritage forum under the patronage of ICOM, UNESCO
(ROSTE), Europa Nostra, ICOMOS and City of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
http://www.thebestinheritage.com/
September 25 - October 1: "Foodways and Lifestyles in the
Search for Health and Beauty", 16th Conference of the
International Commission for Ethnological Food Research, Innsbruck
(Austria) and Merano (Italy).
http://www.siefhome.org/wdb.phpsel=3053
October 2-6: "Thinking, evaluating, rethinking",
ICOM-CECA Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy.
http://ceca.icom.museum/Rome2006.htm
October 4-7: "Site Museums", ICOM-ICMAH annual
meeting, Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
http://www.icmah.com
October 4-7: "Intangible Heritage: African Museums &
Living Cultures". AFRICOM 2nd General Assembly and
International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, in partnership
with the South African Museum Association.
http://www.africom.museum/
or http://www.samaweb.org.za/home.htm
October 8 - 10: "Africa & ICTOP: A Global and
Continental View of Training", South Africa Annual Meeting In
co-operation with IZIKO MUSEUMS, AFRICOM and SAMA, South African
Museums Association. Cape Town, South Africa.
http://ictop.icom.museum
October 11-14: "Textile Narratives and Conversations",
Textile Society of America Symposium, Toronto, Canada.
http://www.textilesociety.org/
October 16 : "Getting the Picture. Using visual
collections as historical evidence", a day conference held at
the People's History Museum, Manchester, UK.
http://www.phm.org.uk/getting/flier.doc
October 18-22 : "“Homelands and Diasporas”",
American Folklore Society 2006 Annual Meeting, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, USA. http://www.afsnet.org
October 19-20 : "Ethnographic Film: Museums,
Documentation, Science", Ethnographic museum, Zagreb,
Croatia. http://www.etnografski-muzej.hr/
October 23-25: Museum Association Annual conference, BICC,
Bournemouth, UK. http://www.museumsassociation.org
November 15-19, 2006 105th AAA Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA,
USA. http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
November 17-18: "Kunst und Ethnographie: Zum Verhältnis
von visueller Kultur und ethnographischem Arbeiten", Berlin,
Germany. http://www.gfe-online.org/
December 3 - 7: "Transcending postcolonial conditions:
Towards alternative modernities", conference co-sponsored by
Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA), the International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the
Pan-African Anthropological Association (PAAA), Cape Town, South
Africa. Deadline for paper proposals: March 31.
http://www.uct-cmc.co.za/conferences/2006/tpc/info.php
December 7-9: "Digital Interpretation in Cultural
Heritage, Art and Science Museums", NODEM 06, Oslo, Norway.
Deadline for papers and exhibition proposals: October 15.
http://www.tii.se/v4m/nodem
January 23-25, 2007: "L'anthropologie face à ses
objets : nouveaux contextes ethnographiques", Campus de
Saint-Charles, Université de Provence, Marseille, France.
Deadline for paper proposals: 15 April 2006.
http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/lms/Colloque.htm
June 20-23, 2007: "Collecting Folk Medicine Objects",
Zagreb, Croatia. Deadline for abstracts: December 15.
http://konferencije.ffzg.hr/cfmo/
August 19 - 24, 2007: "Museums and Universal Heritage:
Universal Heritage / Individual Responsibility - Individual
Heritage / Universal Responsibility", 2007 ICOM General
Conference, Vienna, Austria.
http://www.icom-oesterreich.at/2007/index.html
September 24-28, 2007: "Preserving Aboriginal Heritage:
Technical and Traditional Approaches", Canadian Conservation
Institute, Ottawa, Canada. Deadline for paper proposals: January
15, 2007
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/symposium/callforcontributors_e.aspx
WORDS FROM THE EDITOR
I am still waiting to hear if my funding bid to the British
Academy has been successful. Fingers crossed please everyone! It
has been 6 years since I was last in the USA, and the ICME
programme looks brilliant. Well-done Annette.
At The Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester we
are still feeling delighted with our conference 'Museum World
Forum', which ran from 25th to 27th April. The conference really
celebrated 40 years of museum studies with a wide range of thought
provoking papers, poster presentations, web-based activities,
seminars and of course through food. There will be a Routledge
publication of some papers that our Head of Department Professor
Simon Knell is in the process of editing. I will keep you informed
about that. Perhaps for me the most memorable experience was of
intangible heritage. We had the pleasure to watch a fabulous
Bangra dance performance during dinner at the Space Centre. It was
spectacular. I learnt a little Bangra dancing, from two Japanese
young women, who organised a workshop at the Museum of Ethnology
Osaka, Japan! This was during my October 2006 trip and I am now
trying to persuade my colleagues to join a Leicester group. I also
recalled our wonderful ICME post-conference tour in Korea 2004.
How time flies.
Talking of time. It only remains for me to wish you all safe
trips and to send my very best wishes.
Viv
- Viv Golding, Editor of ICME-news
- E-mail: editor@icme.icom.museum
- Contact address: University of Leicester
- Department of Museum Studies
- 105 Princess Road East
- Leicester LE1 7LG. UK
- Telephone: +44(0) 116 252 3975
- Fax: +44(0) 116 252 3960
The deadline for the next issue is 20th September 2006. Please
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