{"product_id":"objects-as-insights-9780861592357","title":"Objects as Insights","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA timely study of an important, but often overlooked collector of early Melanesian objects and a pioneering anthropologist of his time, providing important contextual material for many of the objects collected by Codrington now in the British Museum, The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter 1: ' I have little doubt but that I can get some good things sooner or later': museum demands  Chapter 2: 'Matters that lie upon the surface of native life and are open to the observation of the visitor and traveller ': the collections    Chapter 3: 'There was a spirit in my pen': Codrington's visual documentation  Chapter 4: 'It has rained shell adzes today, large and small': trading  Chapter 5: On stones and poised arrows : Codrington on mana  Conclusion: Codrington’s importance today  Bibliography  Index","brand":"British Museum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528251580759,"sku":"9780861592357","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780861592357.jpg?v=1731870945","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/objects-as-insights-9780861592357","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}