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Colonial collecting and display : encounters with material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar islands / Claire Wintle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wintle, Claire.
- Series:
- Museums and collections ; v. 4.
- Museums and collections ; vol. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Collectors and collecting--India--Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Material culture.
- Museums--Collection management--Great Britain.
- Museums.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Asia.
- Great Britain.
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)--Colonization.
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India).
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)--Description and travel--British.
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India)--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing their physical and conceptual transformation from objects of indigenous use to accessioned objects in a museum collection in the south of England. This first study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the Islands' material cultures develops a new analysis of colonial discourse, us
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction: Imperial Encounters and Material Culture; Chapter 1: Production, Use, Exchange - Spheres of Influence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chapter 2: Colonial Perspectives on Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chaper 3: Wider Spheres of Influence - The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Chapter 4: Public Property - The Andaman and Nicobar Islands at Brighton Museum, 1900-1949; Chapter 5: Objects and Encounters Today; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857459428
- 0857459422
- OCLC:
- 855505452
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