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Assembling an Anthropological Actor: Anthropological Assemblage and Colonial Government in Papua (2014)

History and Anthropology
Volume: 25
Pages: 263--279

DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2014.882831

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

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This paper traces the networks through which particular practices of collecting cultures became imbricated in new relations governing colonial populations. It investigates the socio-technical arrangements associated with practical anthropology as they were enrolled in the Australian administered territory of Papua. The paper follows the assemblage of a new kind of anthropological actor: one which is framed in relation to new articulations of the administrative, academic and museum networks associated with a programme of scientific administration and the doctrine of humanitarian colonialism. In particular, it focuses on the office of the Government Anthropologist and the ways in which native culture emerged as an administrative surface.

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Article Bennett, Tony; Dibley, Ben; Harrison, Rodney (2014) Introduction: Anthropology, Collecting and Colonial Governmentalities. History and Anthropology (p. 137). unapi

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