Relational Return: a new model for returning Indigenous Cultural Materials . The project aims to develop a new framework for returning Indigenous cultural materials through an Indigenous understanding

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Relational Return: a new model for returning Indigenous Cultural Materials . The project aims to develop a new framework for returning Indigenous cultural materials through an Indigenous understanding of relationality and practice-led research. The project expects to generate new knowledge about cultural materials, exhibition methods and repatriation. Expected outcomes include facilitating the return of select Indigenous cultural materials from international museums to source communities, and fostering cultural revitalisation and contemporary creative practice. This should provide significant benefits, such as transformed museum practices and fulfilling cultural obligations of Indigenous peoples to restore relationality with cultural materials whilst building global collaborations and establishing new standards.. Scheme: Discovery Indigenous. Field: 4501 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History. Lead: Prof Brian Martin