{"product_id":"hunting-the-gatherers-ethnographic-collectors-agents-and-agency-in-melanesia-1870s-1930s-9781571815064","title":"Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tBetween 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“... 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.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · JRAI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eM. O'Hanlon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eH. Gardner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eR. Buschmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eM. Quinnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eE. Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eC. Ballard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eR.Welsch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eM. Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eC. Kaufmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eC. Gosden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eC. Knowles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eN. Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041421951319,"sku":"9781571815064","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571815064.jpg?v=1750950210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hunting-the-gatherers-ethnographic-collectors-agents-and-agency-in-melanesia-1870s-1930s-9781571815064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}