Article ID: CBB001201585

From “Dead Things” to Immutable, Combinable Mobiles: H.D. Skinner, the Otago Museum and University and the Governance of Māori Populations (2014)

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Cameron, Fiona Ruth (Author)


History and Anthropology
Volume: 25
Pages: 208--226


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of the special issue: “Anthropology, Collecting and Colonial Governmentalities”.
Language: English

This paper draws on Callon's [2005. Why Virtualism Paves the Way to Political Impotence: A Reply to Daniel Miller's Critique of The Laws of the Markets. Economic Sociology: European Electronic Newsletter 6 (2): 3--20] concept of agencement, together with Latour's [1987. Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press] concept of immutable combinable mobiles to illustrate how Henry Devenish Skinner, ethnologist and anthropology lecturer at the Otago Museum and University sought to form and shape M ori identity, history, culture and populations as subjects of liberal government. It does this through an exploration of Skinner's fieldwork and collecting practices. The paper suggests that forms of analysis mediated through the American History School, and the culture area concept were deployed during the emergence of anthropology as a discipline in New Zealand (between 1919 and 1940) to produce ethnographic authority that then acted as a point of connection between scientific networks and the colonial administrative field.

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Authors & Contributors
Bennett, Tony
Dibley, Ben
Harrison, Rodney
McCarthy, Conal
Ashby, Jack
Batty, Philip
Journals
History and Anthropology
Archives of Natural History
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Russian Review
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Publishers
Manchester University Press
Oxford University Press
Springer
University of California, Los Angeles
Yale University Press
Concepts
Museums
Collectors and collecting
Science and culture
Collections
Anthropology
Colonialism
People
Boas, Franz
Foucault, Michel
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
Spencer, Baldwin
Allport, Morton
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
New Zealand
Australia
Germany
North America
Siberia (Russia)
Institutions
Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro
Museum Boerhaave (Leiden)
Oxford University
Musée de l'homme (Paris)
Museum of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
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