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Collecting, Ordering, Governing a diverse team of international scholars explore the relationships between anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and practices of social governance of metropolitan, settler, and colonized populations in the early twentieth-century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
Trade Review"This book is a useful addition to the ever-increasing literature exploring the history of the anthropological discipline. Through its examination of particular case studies, it suggests many useful lines of inquiry for anyone exploring the histories of anthropology in different geographical localities." -- Alison Petch * Museum Anthropology Review *
"This volume can bring useful information to anthropologists, museum specialists, and historians of anthropology. . . . Maybe the most important contribution of this work to the wider academic and social discussions on anthropology and colonialism is its balanced and nuanced approach." -- Alexandra Ion * AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology *
“The ambitious range of case studies and their broad time span is impressive and draws on a vast range of resources, making the essays both scholarly and relevant....
Collecting, Ordering, Governing expands the notion of the museum phase of anthropology.” -- Karen Jacobs * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Table of ContentsIllustrations vii
Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii
Note on the Text xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
1. Collecting, Ordering, Governning 9
2. Curatorial Logics and Colonial Rule: The Political Rationalities of Anthropology in Two Australian-Administered Territories 51
3. A Liberal Archive of Everyday Life: Mass-Observation as Oligopticon 89
4. Boas and After: Museum Anthropology and the Governance of Difference in America 131
5. Producing "The Maori as He Was": New Zealand Museums, Anthropological Governance, and Indigenous Agency 175
6. Ethnology, Governance, and Greater France 217
Conclusion 255
Notes 273
References 291
Contributors 325
Index 327
