Hunting the Gatherers : : Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s /

Hunting the Gatherers : : Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s / / ed. by Robert L. Welsch, Michael O'Hanlon.

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Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this vo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ballard, Chris,
Buschmann, Rainer,
Edwards, Elizabeth,
Gardner, Helen,
Gosden, Chris,
Kaufmann, Christian,
Knowles, Chantal,
O’Hanlon, Michael,
Quinnell, Michael,
Thomas, Nicholas,
Welsch, Robert L.,
Young, Michael W.,
HerausgeberIn:
O'Hanlon, Michael,
Welsch, Robert L.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts
  • 3. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870–1904
  • 4. ‘Before it has Become too Late’: The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor’s Official Collection from British New Guinea
  • 5. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898
  • 6. Collecting Pygmies: the ‘Tapiro’ and the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910–1911
  • 7. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea
  • 8. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians
  • 9. Felix Speiser’s Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles
  • 10. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism
  • 11. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist
  • 12. Epilogue
  • Index

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