Hoarding New Guinea : writing colonial ethnographic collection histories for postcolonial futures / Rainer F. Buschmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buschmann, Rainer F., author.

Series:

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Papua New Guinea--New Guinea (Territory).

Cultural property.

New Guinea (Territory)--Civilization.

New Guinea (Territory).

Papua New Guinea--Colonial influence.

Papua New Guinea.

Ethnological museums and collections--Europe.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Cultural property--Repatriation--Papua New Guinea.

Indigenous peoples--Papua New Guinea--New Guinea (Territory)--Social life and customs.

Indigenous peoples.

Civilization.

Colonial influence.

Cultural property--Repatriation.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

Europe.

Papua New Guinea--New Guinea (Territory).

Physical Description:

xvi, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Writing colonial ethnographic collection histories for post-colonial futures

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

" 'Hoarding New Guinea' provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of artifacts that continue to be witnesses to Europe's colonial past in ethnographic museums"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Itinerant Yet Stubbornly Stable European Value of Material Culture, ca. 1870-1920

Ethnographic Resident Collection Networks in German New Guinea

Contested Indigenous Borderlands

Artifact Exchanges along the Ethnographic Borderlands.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496234643

1496234642

OCLC:

1346124740