Hunting the Gatherers

Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

AvMichael O'Hanlon,Robert L. Welsch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-02-15
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Methodology & History in Anthropology
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781571818119

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Michael O'Hanlon is Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

Recensioner i media

“... a most welcome book ... Reading this book should irrevocably change how one looks at an ethnographic exhibit ... These wide-ranging articles ... augment our understanding of museums and their objects ... Overall, this is a rich collection of essays, brimming with data and, for the most part, cogently analysed.” · JRAI

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionM. O'HanlonChapter 1. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of ArtefactsH. GardnerChapter 2. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904R. BuschmannChapter 3. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New GuineaM. QuinnellChapter 4. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898E. EdwardsChapter 5. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911C. BallardChapter 6. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New GuineaR.WelschChapter 7. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the AntiquariansM. YoungChapter 8. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art StylesC. KaufmannChapter 9. On His Todd: Material Culture and ColonialismC. GosdenChapter 10. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and AnthropologistC. KnowlesEpilogueN. ThomasNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

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