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Anthropology's Global Histories - The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 (Hardcover)
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Anthropology's Global Histories - The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
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Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows.
Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in
their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have
raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history.
Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing
qualities of techniques employed by world historians - this despite
the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative
enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to
recover some of anthropology's global flavor by viewing its history
in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier - the
furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the
Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884-1914) presents an
ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators
there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology.
Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by
preparing largescale expeditions to German New Guinea.Buschmann
explores the resulting interactions between German colonial
officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous
peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of
anthropological theory. He shows how changes in collecting aims and
methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on
material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous
culture. He also shows how ethnological collecting, often a
competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to
national concerns. Finally, he places the German experience in the
broader context of Euro-American anthropology.""Anthropology's
Global Histories"" will interest students and scholars of
anthropology, history, world history, and Pacific studies.
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