Resources

About Amagugu Ethu

• Durban Local History Museums. November 3, 2020. Museum in a Box – Using Technology to Reclaim Local Histories and Make Them More Accessible. In Durban Local History Museums blog. Retrievable at https://durbanhistorymuseums.org.za/museum-in-a-box-using-technology-to-reclaim-local-histories-and-make-them-more-accessible/

• Laura K. Gibson. 2019. Decolonising South African museums in a digital age: re-imagining the Iziko Museums’ Natal Nguni catalogue and collection. Doctoral Thesis.

• Laura K. Gibson. 2020. Pots, belts, and medicine containers: Challenging colonial-era categories and classifications in the digital age. In Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, 6, 2, 1-30. Retrievable at https://www.academia.edu/download/65123670/Gibson_Challenging_Colonial_era_Categories_Classifications_in_the_Digital_Age.pdf

• Laura Gibson. March 12, 2020. Museum in a Box tells our stories. In Mail and Guardian. Retrievable at https://mg.co.za/africa/2020-03-12-museum-in-a-box-tells-our-stories/

• Clara Giménez-Delgado, Laura Gibson & Hannah Turner. 2021. Amagugu Ethu / Our Treasures Project: Between the museum and the archives in community description. Association of Canadian Archivists Virtual Conference. More information available at https://archivists.ca/2021

• Iziko Museums website https://www.iziko.org.za/

• Luthuli Museum website https://luthulimuseum.org.za/

• Luthuli Museum. September 6, 2019. Museum in a box launch. Retrievable at https://luthulimuseum.org.za/project/museum-in-a-box-launch-06-september-2019/

• George Oates. September 9, 2019. New Commission: Amagugu Ethu / Our Treasures. In Museum in a Blox blog. Retrievable at https://museuminabox.org/amagugu-ethu-our-treasures/

• Hannah Turner. November, 2015. Information Infrastructures in the Museum: Documenting, Digitizing, and Practising Ethnographic Objects in the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology. Doctoral Thesis. More information available at Information Infrastructures in the Museum: Documenting, Digitizing, and Practising Ethnographic Objects in the Smithsonian’s Department of Anthropology | TSpace Repository (utoronto.ca)

• Hannah Turner. September 17, 2019. Amagugu Ethu / Our Treasures. Retrievable at https://hannahtrnr.com/2019/09/17/amagugu-ethu-our-treasures/

• Hannah Turner. February 12, 2020. Designing for People and Their Belongings in Museum Collections: the Amagugu Ethu / Our Treasures Project. Designing for People Seminar Series. More information available at https://dfp.ubc.ca/news-and-events/events/designing-people-and-their-belongings-museum-collections-amagugu-ethu-our

• Hannah Turner. 2020. Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation. UBC Press: Vancouver. More information available at https://www.ubcpress.ca/cataloguing-culture

Sources of Inspiration

• Inuvialuit Living History Project. More information available at http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/
• Mukurtu. More information available at https://mukurtu.org/
• Noongarpedia. More information available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Noongarpedia
• Reciprocal Research Network. More information available at https://www.rrncommunity.org/
• Traditional Knowledge Labels. More information available at https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/