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Success and struggles of small island museums in Polynesia with special reference to Pitcairn Island.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Success and struggles of small island museums in Polynesia with special reference to Pitcairn Island./
作者:	Johnson, Christine K.
面頁冊數:	110 p.
附註:	Adviser: Robert L. Winzeler.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-02.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1447813
ISBN:	9780549185857

Success and struggles of small island museums in Polynesia with special reference to Pitcairn Island.
Johnson, Christine K.

Success and struggles of small island museums in Polynesia with special reference to Pitcairn Island. - 110 p.

Adviser: Robert L. Winzeler.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2007.

This thesis is an investigation into museum development on small islands in the Pacific, particularly within the boundaries of Polynesia and with special reference to Pitcairn Island. The purpose of this inquiry is to identify difficulties encountered in the development of small island museums and to discern the driving force behind such development in order to identify whether small island societies will be successful in future endeavors toward developing and maintaining museums.

ISBN: 9780549185857Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Success and struggles of small island museums in Polynesia with special reference to Pitcairn Island.
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520 $a Pacific islands are stereotypically thought of as Paradise. It is this vision that draws hundreds of thousands of people to visit, those numbers increasing each year. Visitors to French Polynesia alone have escalated from 180,440 in 1997 to more than 230,000 in 2005 (Stanley, 2005). Tourists enjoy a variety of activities on the South Pacific islands each year, and included in these activities are visits to local museums. It is these island museums that are the focus of this thesis and will be the source of material for analysis.
520 $a Advancements in transportation and technological capabilities have brought many islands to focus on tourism. Most now have tourism as their primary industry. Virtually every inhabited island group now has at least one cultural or historical museum. While some islands remain too remote at this time to compete well or at all in the tourism market, Internet capabilities now afford access for such purposes as local information, economic benefit and global interest.
520 $a Pitcairn Island in the Southeastern Pacific is a good example of a small, remote island attempting to appeal to the tourism market with the development of a cultural and historical museum. While Pitcairn has had a museum for more than twenty years, recent efforts in developing a new facility as well as adding to the collection is one of many items on the agenda for increasing tourism to this remote island. Sadly, this has been a difficult endeavor, as most museum-worthy cultural and historical items were taken illegally, given away or otherwise removed from the island at various times over two centuries. Many items were probably lost forever to private collections.
520 $a Chapter one of this thesis outlines the particular questions to be addressed and the methodology used in developing the thesis. Chapter two is devoted to the various definitions of a museum, and difficulties that museums encounter in general terms. Chapter three presents an overview of Polynesia and small island museums found there, and discuss the various organizations and resources that are available to developing museums. Chapter four discusses the results of a survey conducted in 2006, regarding museum statistics and self-perception in Polynesian museums, to which several museums did respond, allowing for analysis and discussion. Chapter five is devoted to a case study of the Pitcairn Island Museum, in which I will discuss the development of the new museum and the difficulties this island is experiencing in its efforts. Chapter six, the final chapter of this thesis, offers concluding remarks and addresses the original questions posed in chapter one.
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