Book ID: CBB000101821

Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s (2000)

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O'Hanlon, Michael (Editor)
Welsch, Robert Louis (Editor)


Berghahn Books


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xviii + 286 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Based on papers from a 1999 conference. Contents: Helen Gardner: Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian economy in the collection of artifacts. Rainer Buschmann: Exploring tensions in material culture: Commercialising ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904. Michael Quinnell: “Before it has become too late”: The making and repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's official collection from British New Guinea. Elizabeth Edwards: Surveying culture: Photography, collecting and material culture in British New Guinea, 1898. Chris Ballard: Collecting pygmies: The “Tapiro” and the British Ornithologists' Union expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911. Robert L. Welsch: One time, one place, three collections: Colonial processes and the shaping of some museum collections from German New Guinea. Michael W. Young: The careless collector: Malinowski and the antiquarians. Christian Kaufmann: Felix Speiser's fletched arrow: A paradigm shift from physical anthropology to art styles. Chris Gosden: On his Todd: Material culture and colonialism. Chantal Knowles: Reverse trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as collector and anthropologist. N. Thomas: “Epilogue”.


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Authors & Contributors
Larson, Frances
Buschmann, Rainer F.
Franz, Marisa Karyl
Tunkina, I. V.
Pezzati, Alessandro
Petch, Alison
Concepts
Cultural anthropology
Ethnology
Museums
Collectors and collecting
Science and culture
Ethnography
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Islands of the Pacific
Great Britain
New Guinea
Germany
Africa
Russian Empire
Institutions
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
University of Pennsylvania
Oxford University
Cambridge University
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