Overview

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 volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.

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Author:   Michael O'Hanlon ,  Robert L. Welsch
Publisher:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Imprint:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   v. 6
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9781571815064

ISBN 10:   1571815066
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   01 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction M. O'Hanlon Chapter 1. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts H. Gardner Chapter 2. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904 R. Buschmann Chapter 3. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea M. Quinnell Chapter 4. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898 E. Edwards Chapter 5. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911 C. Ballard Chapter 6. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea R.Welsch Chapter 7. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians M. Young Chapter 8. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles C. Kaufmann Chapter 9. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism C. Gosden Chapter 10. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist C. Knowles Epilogue N. Thomas Notes on contributors Bibliography Index

Reviews

... a most welcome book ... Reading this book should irrevocably change how one looks at an ethnographic exhibit ... These wide-ranging articles ... augment our understanding of museums and their objects ... Overall, this is a rich collection of essays, brimming with data and, for the most part, cogently analysed.A * JRAI

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Michael O'Hanlon is Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

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