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Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s / edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 6.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnological museums and collections--History.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Museums--Acquisitions--Melanesia--History.
- Museums.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork--Melanesia.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork.
- Antiquities.
- Collectors and collecting.
- History.
- Material culture.
- Museums--Acquisitions.
- Melanesia.
- Material culture--Melanesia.
- Collectors and collecting--Melanesia--History.
- Melanesia--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
- Contents:
- 2. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts / Helen Gardner 35
- 3. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904 / Rainer Buschmann 55
- 4. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea / Michael Quinnell 81
- 5. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898 / Elizabeth Edwards 103
- 6. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911 / Chris Ballard 127
- 7. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea / Robert L. Welsch 155
- 8. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians / Michael W. Young 181
- 9. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles / Christian Kaufmann 203
- 10. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism / Chris Gosden 227
- 11. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist / Chantal Knowles 251.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571818111
- OCLC:
- 44969623
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