Possessing Culture: Museums, Anthropology and German New Guinea
Author:   Christopher Gosden ,  Chantal Knowles
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781859736555


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 December 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Possessing Culture: Museums, Anthropology and German New Guinea


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Tracing such mysteries, Gosden and Knowles shed new light on the complex histories of colonialism and the often contradictory power relations that it instilled. This absorbing book will appeal to all those interested in anthropology, colonialism and post-colonialism, material culture and museology.

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Author:   Christopher Gosden ,  Chantal Knowles
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781859736555


ISBN 10:   1859736556
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 December 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

German Anthropology and its Colonial Links * The Germans in New Guinea: Colonialism and Collection * Collecting Practices I * Collecting Practices II * The Ethnography of the Arawes * The Collections and their Later Histories I * The Collections and their Later Histories II * Collectors and Collections from Southwestern New Britain * The Particularity of German Colonialism and Museology

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Chris Gosden is Curator and University Lecturer in World Archaeology,Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford Chantal Knowles is Curator of Ethnography, National Museums of Scotland

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