Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s /
Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s /
edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch.
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
- xviii, 286 p. ill. ; 23 cm.
- Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 6 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction
Michael O'Hanlon
2. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy
in the Collection of Artefacts
Helen Gardner
3. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising
Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904
Rainer Buschmann
4. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation
of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British
New Guinea
Michael Quinnell
5. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material
Culture in British New Guinea, 1898
Elizabeth Edwards
6. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists'
Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911
Chris Ballard
7. One Time. One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes
and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German
New Guinea
Robert L. Welsch
8. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians
Michael W. Young
9. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from
Physical Anthropology to Art Styles
Christian Kaufmann
10, On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism
Chris Gosden
11, Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and
Anthropologist
Chantal Knowles
12, Epilogue
Nicholas Thomas
1571818111 (hardback : alk. paper)
Ethnological museums and collections--History.
Museums--Acquisitions--History.--Melanesia
Ethnology--Fieldwork--Melanesia.
Material culture--Melanesia.
Collectors and collecting--History.--Melanesia
Melanesia--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
069.50995 / OHA/H
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction
Michael O'Hanlon
2. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy
in the Collection of Artefacts
Helen Gardner
3. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising
Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904
Rainer Buschmann
4. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation
of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British
New Guinea
Michael Quinnell
5. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material
Culture in British New Guinea, 1898
Elizabeth Edwards
6. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists'
Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911
Chris Ballard
7. One Time. One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes
and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German
New Guinea
Robert L. Welsch
8. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians
Michael W. Young
9. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from
Physical Anthropology to Art Styles
Christian Kaufmann
10, On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism
Chris Gosden
11, Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and
Anthropologist
Chantal Knowles
12, Epilogue
Nicholas Thomas
1571818111 (hardback : alk. paper)
Ethnological museums and collections--History.
Museums--Acquisitions--History.--Melanesia
Ethnology--Fieldwork--Melanesia.
Material culture--Melanesia.
Collectors and collecting--History.--Melanesia
Melanesia--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
069.50995 / OHA/H