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.