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A landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that
contributed to a recovery of Maori society. From 1919 to 1923, at
Sir Apirana Ngata's initiative, a team from the Dominion Museum
travelled to tribal areas across Te Ika-a-Maui The North Island to
record tikanga Maori (ancestral practices) that Ngata feared might
be disappearing. These ethnographic expeditions, the first in the
world to be inspired and guided by indigenous leaders, used
cutting-edge technologies that included cinematic film and wax
cylinders to record fishing techniques, art forms (weaving,
kowhaiwhai, kapa haka and moteatea), ancestral rituals and everyday
life in the communities they visited. The team visited the 1919 Hui
Aroha in Gisborne, the 1920 welcome to the Prince of Wales in
Rotorua, and communities along the Whanganui River (1921) and in
Tairawhiti (1923). Medical doctor-soldier-ethnographer Te
Rangihiroa (Sir Peter Buck), the expedition's photographer and
film-maker James McDonald, the ethnologist Elsdon Best and Turnbull
Librarian Johannes Andersen recorded a wealth of material. This
beautifully illustrated book tells the story of these expeditions,
and the determination of early twentieth century Maori leaders,
including Ngata, Te Rangihiroa, James Carroll, and those in the
communities they visited, to pass on ancestral tikanga 'hei taonga
mo nga uri whakatipu' as treasures for a rising generation.
Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness,
1650-1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and
analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing,
thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent
authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat
elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650-1850 delivers a
comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the
first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its
pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions,
providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely
shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no
exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will
travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of
worldmaking and other worlds-on the Enlightenment zest for the
discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds,
envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays
in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers
through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around
European gardens, over the high seas, across the American
frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into
the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further
enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews
evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship.
This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western
Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La
Perouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in
March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the
voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java,
its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost.
The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and
catalogue of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during
the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in
France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United
States. The focus on artefacts is informed by a broad conception of
collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous
protagonists and also as materialized in other genres-written
accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings,
engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the
antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including
its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging
(1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular
chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections.
Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings,
relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and
significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of
collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to
present implications of objects and their histories, especially for
modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine
Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western
Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La
Perouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in
March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the
voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java,
its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost.
The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and
catalogue of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during
the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in
France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United
States. The focus on artefacts is informed by a broad conception of
collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous
protagonists and also as materialized in other genres-written
accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings,
engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the
antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including
its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging
(1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular
chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections.
Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings,
relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and
significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of
collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to
present implications of objects and their histories, especially for
modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.
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