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Hunting the Gatherers - Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s (Paperback, New edition)
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Hunting the Gatherers - Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology
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." . . 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." . JRAI 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. Michael O'Hanlon is
Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Robert L.
Welsch teaches at the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth, New
Hampshire."
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