Awards

• Winner of Outstanding Achievement Award, Conservation Category, Canadian Museums Association 2002 (Canada)

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Reviews

Preserving What is Valued will resonate with conservators and curators in Australia who work with Indigenous Australian material culture. Clavir’s book elucidates the culturally-determined nature of values and motivations in cultural preservation, and the importance of adopting appropriate conservation methods. It is among the first major texts to provide a detailed examination of these issues. -- Moira Simpson, author of Making Representations and Museums and Repatriation * Museums Australia Magazine, May 2005 * Preserving What is Valued: Museums, Conservation and First Nations, a revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis, makes a significant contribution to the discussion of cultural heritage issues from a conservation standpoint. Firstly, Clavir is skilful and largely successful in drawing out the local focus in order to examine and illustrate far broader questions that concern us all: and, secondly, the depth in which the detail of often conflicting local views is explored is itself central to the making of some of the book’s most important views. I found this to be an interesting, richly researched and carefully presented book. It is an excellent resource for those wanting to explore museum-source community debates about cultural heritage in Canada and in the relatively neglected area of conservation practice, and has considerable overall value as a text for those wishing to explore cultural heritage sites. -- Sandra Dudley, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester * Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 26, No. 1, April 2005 *

Preserving What is Valued will resonate with conservators and curators in Australia who work with Indigenous Australian material culture. Clavir's book elucidates the culturally-determined nature of values and motivations in cultural preservation, and the importance of adopting appropriate conservation methods. It is among the first major texts to provide a detailed examination of these issues. -- Moira Simpson, author of Making Representations and Museums and Repatriation Museums Australia Magazine, May 2005 Preserving What is Valued: Museums, Conservation and First Nations, a revised version of the author's doctoral thesis, makes a significant contribution to the discussion of cultural heritage issues from a conservation standpoint. Firstly, Clavir is skilful and largely successful in drawing out the local focus in order to examine and illustrate far broader questions that concern us all: and, secondly, the depth in which the detail of often conflicting local views is explored is itself central to the making of some of the book's most important views. I found this to be an interesting, richly researched and carefully presented book. It is an excellent resource for those wanting to explore museum-source community debates about cultural heritage in Canada and in the relatively neglected area of conservation practice, and has considerable overall value as a text for those wishing to explore cultural heritage sites. -- Sandra Dudley, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 26, No. 1, April 2005

Preserving What is Valued will resonate with conservators and curators in Australia who work with Indigenous Australian material culture. Clavir's book elucidates the culturally-determined nature of values and motivations in cultural preservation, and the importance of adopting appropriate conservation methods. It is among the first major texts to provide a detailed examination of these issues. ?Moira Simpson, Author of Making Representations and Museums and Repatriation, from Museums Australia Magazine, May 2005 Preserving What is Valued: Museums, Conservation and First Nations, a revised version of the author's doctoral thesis, makes a significant contribution to the discussion of cultural heritage issues from a conservation standpoint. Firstly, Clavir is skilful and largely successful in drawing out the local focus in order to examine and illustrate far broader questions that concern us all: and, secondly, the depth in which the detail of often conflicting local views is explored is itself central to the making of some of the book's most important views. I found this to be an interesting, richly researched and carefully presented book. It is an excellent resource for those wanting to explore museum-source community debates about cultural heritage in Canada and in the relatively neglected area of conservation practice, and has considerable overall value as a text for those wishing to explore cultural heritage sites. Sandra Dudley, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 26, No. 1, April 2005

Author Information

Miriam Clavir is Senior Conservator at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, and an associate of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, UBC.

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