Institutions of public memory are increasingly undertaking co-creative media initiatives in which community members create content with the support of institutional expertise and resources. This paper discusses one such initiative: the State Library of Queensland’s ‘Responses to the Apology’, which used a collaborative digital storytelling methodol...
This review recognises and supports the State Library of Queensland's (SLQ) developing role as a leader in collection, preservation and access, as well as service and training provision, public engagement and creative innovation in oral history and digital storytelling. The review includes a comprehensive survey of the current status of the SLQ ora...
In this article we analyze the characteristics and aims of Spanish cultural policy in relation to the Federal German Republic between 1956 and 1966. We take as a model the Spanish Institute in Munich. Between 1956 and 1966 this institution was one of the main axes of the cultural relations between both countries. We analyze the origins and history ...
Published in Human Ecology
This paper is an attempt to combine the results and conclusions of two independently designed research projects, in order to achieve a more complete understanding of the degree of exploitation of living marine resources by a small Tongan coastal fishing community. Results of a socioeconomic resource-driven survey and an anthropological study adopti...
Published in Gradhiva
The Bureau d’Ethnologie in Haiti. — What are the relations between anthropology, politics and society in Haiti? How have the social sciences been involved? Haiti’s Bureau d’Ethnologie was set up in 1941 to study and defend folk culture; this assignment has aroused debates that are still far from settled. The Bureau proposed a new definition of Hait...
Published in Journal of Cultural Economics
In Italy, the Regular Grant is the most important subsidy to private cultural institutions. Since 1996, law 534/96 has regulated its provision. This law greatly improves on the previous legislation, as it redefines the prerequisites to become a recipient and specifies performance indicators to which the size of the grant must be tied. This paper ex...
This paper investigates copyright law and public architecture in the context of cultural institutions of Australia. Part 1 examines the case of the Sydney Opera House to illustrate the past position of architects in respect of copyright law. It goes onto consider the framework laid down by the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 (Cth) to re...
In this article, Carol D. Saunders and H. Elizabeth Stuart Perry of the Brookfield Zoo provide findings from the summative evaluation of "The Swamp." This immersive wetlands exhibit was designed to encourage people to appreciate the benefits of ecosystems and features animals and plants of a cypress swamp and of an Illinois riverine wetland.
Cet ouvrage méthodologique et programmatique est destiné à favoriser l'inscription de recherches locales dans un cadre d'analyse clairement formulé qui fait trop souvent défaut aux approches de type monographique sur ces questions. Partant de réflexions d'ensemble sur les enquêtes monographiques, il distingue les différentes dimensions de telles en...
