{"product_id":"pacific-presences-volume-2-oceanic-art-and-european-museums-9789088906268","title":"Pacific Presences (volume 2): Oceanic Art and European Museums","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vast and extraordinary collections from the Pacific, collected from the late eighteenth century onwards, that are dispersed across ethnographic and other museums in Europe amount to hundreds of thousands of artefacts, ranging from seemingly quotidian and utilitarian baskets and fish-hooks to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. Alongside the works themselves are rich archives of documents, drawings by early travellers, and often vast photographic collections, as well as historic catalogues and object inventories. These collections constitute a rich and remarkable resource for understanding society and history across Indigenous Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook and his contemporaries, and the colonial transformations of the nineteenth century onwards. These are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in understanding ancestral forms and practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book, in two volumes, not only enlarges understanding of Oceanic art history and Oceanic collections in important ways, but also enables new reflections upon museums and ways of undertaking work in and around them. It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of curators and researchers, not merely to consult, but to initiate and undertake research, conservation, acquisition, exhibition, outreach and publication projects collaboratively and responsively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume two presents the scope of research activities of the project, with chapters focused around the following themes: materialities, collection histories and exhibitions, legacies of empire, contemporary activations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Introduction     Part one: Materialities     1. Fibre skirts: continuity and change  Erna Lilje     2. Shell money and context in Western Island Melanesia  Katherine Szabo     3. Aitutaki patterns or listening to the voices of the Ancestors: research on Aitutaki ta’unga in European Museums  Michaela Appel and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki     4. Unpacking cosmologies: frigate bird and turtle shell headdresses in Nauru  Maia Nuku     5. Reaching across the Ocean’: Barkcloth in Oceania and beyond  Anna-Karina Hermkens     6. ‘U’u: an unfinished inquiry into the history and adornment of Marquesan clubs  Nicholas Thomas     Part two: Collection histories and exhibitions     7. Haphazard Histories: tracing Kanak collections in UK museums  Julie Adams     8. Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and implications: researching Kiribati coconut fibre armour in UK collections  Polly Bence     9. From Russia with love: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s Pacific collections  Elena Govor     10. Collecting procedure unknown: contextualising the Max Biermann collection in the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich  Hilke Thode-Arora     11. Made to measure: photographs from the Templeton Crocker expedition  Lucie Carreau     12. German women collectors in the Pacific: Elizabeth Krämer-Bannow and Antonie Brandeis  Amiria Salmond     13. The illustration of culture: work on paper in the art history of Oceana  Nicholas Thomas     14. Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post)colonial exhibitions, and the ‘cold odyssey’ of Pacific Objects between East and West  Philipp Schorch     15. Museum Dreams: the rise and fall of a ‘Port-Vila Museum  Peter Brunt     Part three: Legacies of Empire     16. Kings, Rangatira and relationships: the enduring meanings of ‘treasure’ exchanges between Māori and Europeans in 1830s Whangaroa  Deidre Brown     17. An early Tongan ngatu tahina in Sweden  Nicholas Thomas     18. Wilful amnesia? Contemporary Dutch narratives about western New Guinea  Fanny Wonu Veys     19. A glimmering presence: the unheard Melanesian voices of St Barnabas Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island  Lucie Carreau     20. The Titikaveka barkcloth: a preliminary account  Nicholas Thomas     21. ‘The woman who walks’: Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, her collecting and contacts in western New Guinea  Katharina Haslwanter     17. History and Cultural Identity: commemorating the arrival of the British in Kiribati  Alison Clark     23. Makereti and the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1921–1930, and beyond  Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Jeremy Coote     Part four: Contemporary activations     24. ARCHIVES Te Wāhi Pounamu  Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams     25. Hoe Whakairo: painted paddles from New Zealand  Steve Gibbs, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond     26. Toi Hauiti and Hinematioro: a Māori ancestor in a German castle  Wayne Ngata, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond     27. Reinvigorating the study of Micronesain objects in European museums: collections from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia  Helen A. Alderson     28. Knowing and not knowing  Alana Jelinek     29. Interview  Kaetaeta Watson, Chris Charteris, Lizzy Leckie and Alison Clark     30. Piecing together the past: reflections on replicating and ancestral tiputa with contemporary fabrics  Pauline Reynolds     31. Interview  Dairi Arua and Erna Lilje     32. ‘In Process’  Alana Jelinek     33. Backhand and full tusks: museology and the mused  Rosanna Raymond     Epilogue  Endnotes  Select bibliography  Contributors’ Biographies  Acknowledgements  Index","brand":"Sidestone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210964099415,"sku":"9789088906268","price":63.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pacific-presences-volume-2-oceanic-art-and-european-museums-9789088906268","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}