TY - BOOK ID - 25434950 TI - Decolonising conservation : caring for Maori meeting houses outside New Zealand PY - 2016 SN - 9781598743098 9781598743104 9781315430614 9781315430584 9781315430591 PB - Abingdon : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Maori [culture or style] KW - woodcarving KW - material culture [discipline] KW - Conservation. Restoration KW - cultural heritage KW - Architecture KW - New Zealand KW - Architecture maorie KW - Maoris (peuple de Nouvelle-Zélande) KW - Protection KW - Études de cas KW - Conservation et restauration KW - Culture matérielle KW - Études de cas. KW - Conservation et restauration. KW - Maoris (peuple de Nouvelle-Zélande) KW - Études de cas. KW - Culture matérielle KW - woodcarving [process] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25434950 AB - This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people's lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice. To do so, the authors examine conservation activities at Maori marae-meeting houses-located in the US, Germany, and England and contrasts them with changes in marae conservation in New Zealand. A key case study is the Hinemihi meeting house, transported to England in the 1890s where it was treated as a curiosity by visitors to Clandon Park for over a century, and more recently as a focal point of cultural activity for UK Maori communities. Recent efforts to include various Maori stakeholder communities in the care of this sacred structure is a key example of community based conservation that can be replicated in heritage practice around the world. ER -