Repatriation, exchange, and colonial legacies in the Gulf of Papua : moving pictures / Lara Lamb, Christopher Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Lara, author.

Lee, Christopher, 1962- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Repatriation--Papua New Guinea.

Cultural property.

Intercultural communication--Papua New Guinea.

Intercultural communication.

Cultural property--Repatriation.

Manners and customs.

Kikori River Region (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.

Kikori River Region (Papua New Guinea).

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

xix, 279 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were taken, reproductions of Frank Hurleys colonial-era photographs are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples whom he photographed. The book illuminates ways in which the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value and presents a reconsideration of the colonial legacies that continue to affect the social and political worlds of people in the twenty-first century. Lara Lamb is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Christopher Lee is Professor of Literature and Culture at Griffith University, Australia.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

Moving Pictures

Collecting Cultural Artefacts in the Gulf Region of Papua New Guinea

Frank Hurley and the Papua Expeditions

Colonial Discourse and Interdisciplinary Methodology

Outline of the Book

References

2. Exploration, Salvation, Protection, and Development: European Contact and Control in Papua New Guinea

"First Contact": Voyages of Exploration

The London Missionary Society

Colonial Administration: British Protectorate, British-Australian Colony, Australian Territory

The Goaribari Expeditions 1901

1904

Administrative Control of Labour

Agricultural Development: Plantations

Systems of Surveillance: Law and Order, Health and Hygiene

"Understanding the Native": Salvation, Science, Governance

3. Frank Hurley in the Gulf of Papua

Hurley's Papuan Expeditions 1920

1923

The Dispute Between Hurley and the Papuan Administration

Reception and Distribution of Hurley's Work

4. The Lure of Barter: An Understanding of Papuan Peoples as Established Agents of Movement and Exchange

The "Lure of Barter"

The Myth of First Contact: Language and Migration

The Myth of First Contact: Trade and Exchange

Village and Community

Wartime

Post-World War Two

5. Visual Repatriation or Exchange? Theory and Method

Theory

Method

Ambiguities and Limitations

6. Contemporary Kerewo and Urama Responses to Frank Hurley's Collection

Identifying Ancestors

Intergenerational Loss, Preservation, and Change

Knowledge by Acquaintance; Knowledge by Description

The Agency of Photographs

The Relational Quality of a Museum Collection

"Pearls and Savages, Geez What a Title": Attitudes Towards the Man, the Photographs, and the Film

7. Decolonial Aspiration, Postcolonial Agency, and the Uses of Heritage

8. Conclusion: Public Exchanges and the Decolonising Enfranchisement of Modern Citizens

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783031155789

3031155785

OCLC:

1346321654

Publisher Number:

99993605116