Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s /: ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch.
• Other Names: O'Hanlon, Michael; Welsch, Robert Louis, 1950-
• Contents: Gathering for God : George Brown and the Christian economy in the collection of artefacts / Helen Gardner -- Exploring tensions in material culture : commercialising ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904 / Rainer Buschmann -- 'Before it has become too late' : the making and repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's official collection from British New Guinea / Michael Quinnell -- Surveying culture : photography, collecting and material culture in British New Guinea, 1898 / Elizabeth Edwards -- Collecting pygmies : the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911 / Chris Ballard -- One time, one place, three collections : colonial processes and the shaping of some museum collections from German New Guinea / Robert L. Welsch -- The careless collector : Malinowski and the antiquarians / Michael W. Young -- Felix Speiser's fletched arrow : a paradigm shift from physical anthropology to art styles / Christian Kaufmann -- On his Todd : material culture and colonialism / Chris Gosden -- Reverse trajectories : Beatrice Blackwood as collector and anthropologist / Chantal Knowles.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 069/.5/0995; Ethnological museums and collections -- History; Museums -- Acquisitions -- Melanesia -- History; Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Melanesia; Material culture -- Melanesia; Collectors and collecting -- Melanesia -- History; Ethnology -- history; Ethnologie -- Musées et collections -- Histoire; Musées -- Acquisitions -- Mélanésie -- Histoire; Ethnologie -- Mélanésie -- Recherche sur le terrain; Culture matérielle -- Mélanésie; Collectionneurs -- Mélanésie -- Histoire; Collections -- Mélanésie -- Histoire; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology; REFERENCE -- General; TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; Antiquities -- Collection and preservation; Collectors and collecting; Ethnological museums and collections; Ethnology -- Fieldwork; Material culture; Museums -- Acquisitions; Etnografica; Verzamelen; Ethnologie; Forschung; Anthropologie; Museum; Sammlung; Melanesia -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation; Melanesia; Mélanésie -- Antiquités -- Collections et conservation; Melanesia; Melanesien; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0857456911; 9780857456915
• Related ISBNs: 1571818111; 9781571818119; 1571815066; 9781571815064
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.