Pacific presences. Volume 2, Oceanic art and European museums / edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Carreau, Lucie, editor.
• Clark, Alison, editor.
• Jelinek, Alana, editor.
• Lilje, Erna, editor.
• Thomas, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

• Pacific presences ; vol. 4B.
• Pacific presences ; volume 4B

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Art objects--Oceania.
• Art--Oceania.
• Art.
• Art objects.
• Oceania.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Oceanic Art and European Museums

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2018]

Summary:

Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in ancestral forms and practices. This two-volume book enlarges understandings of Oceanic art and enables new reflection upon museums and ways of working in and around them. In dialogue with Islanders' perspectives, It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of scholars and curators to work collaboratively and responsively. Volume II illustrates the sheer variety of Pacific artefacts and histories in museums, and similarly the heterogeneity of the issues and opportunities that they raise. Over thirty essays explore materialities, collection histories, legacies of empire, and contemporary projects.

Contents:

• Intro; Introduction; Nicholas Thomas; Part one; Materialities; Fibre skirts: continuity and change; Erna Lilje; Shell money and context in Western Island Melanesia; Katherine Szabó; Aitutaki patterns or listening to the voices of the Ancestors: research on Aitutaki ta'unga in European museums; Michaela Appel and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki; Unpacking cosmologies: frigate bird and turtle shell headdresses in Nauru; Maia Nuku; 'Reaching across the Ocean': Barkcloth in Oceania and beyond; Anna-Karina Hermkens; 'U'u: an unfinished inquiry into the history and adornment of Marquesan clubs.
• Nicholas ThomasPart two; Collection histories and exhibitions; Haphazard histories: tracing Kanak collections in UK museums; Julie Adams; Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and implications: researching Kiribati coconut fibre armour in UK collections; Polly Bence; From Russia with love: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's Pacific collections; Elena Govor; Collecting procedure unknown: contextualizing the Max Biermann collection in the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich; Hilke Thode-Arora; Made to measure: photographs from the Templeton Crocker expedition; Lucie Carreau.
• German women collectors in the Pacific: Elizabeth Krämer-Bannow and Antonie BrandeisAmiria Salmond; The illustration of culture: work on paper in the art history of Oceania; Nicholas Thomas; Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post)colonial exhibitions, and the 'cold odyssey' of Pacific objects between East and West; Philipp Schorch; Museum dreams: the rise and fall of a Port Vila museum; Peter Brunt; Part three; Legacies of empire; Kings, Rangatira and relationships: the enduring meanings of 'treasure' exchanges between Māori and Europeans in 1830s Whangaroa; Deidre Brown.
• An early Tongan ngatu tahina in SwedenNicholas Thomas; Wilful amnesia? Contemporary Dutch narratives about western New Guinea; Fanny Wonu Veys; A glimmering presence: the unheard Melanesian voices of St Barnabas Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island; Lucie Carreau; The Titikaveka barkcloth: a preliminary account; Nicholas Thomas; 'The woman who walks': Lucy Evelyn Cheesman and her collection from western New Guinea at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge; Katharina Wilhelmina Haslwanter; History and cultural identity: commemorating the arrival of British in Kiribati; Alison Clark.
• Makereti and the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1921-1930, and beyondNgahuia te Awekotuku and Jeremy Coote; Part four; Contemporary activations; ARCHIVES Te Wāhi Pounamu; Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams; Hoe Whakairo: painted paddles from New Zealand; Steve Gibbs, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond; Toi Hauiti and Hinematioro: a Māori ancestor in a German castle; Wayne Ngata, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond; Reinvigorating the study of Micronesian objects in European museums: collections from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia; Helen Alderson; Knowing and not knowing; Alana Jelinek.

Notes:

• Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2018).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pacific presences. Volume 2, Oceanic art and European museums.

ISBN:

• 9789088906282
• 9088906289

OCLC:

1062419527

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