Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.
| ISBN: | 9781571815064 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2001 |
| Author: | Michael OHanlon, Robert Welsch |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 268 pages |
| Series: | Methodology & History in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Museology and heritage studies Anthropology |
Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in metropolitan museums, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.
Hunting the Gatherers features in the following genres: Museology and heritage studies, Anthropology
Hunting the Gatherers is available in Paperback
Hunting the Gatherers was written by Michael OHanlon, Robert Welsch and published by Berghahn Books
Hunting the Gatherers has 268 pages
Yes it is part of Methodology & History in Anthropology series