Hunting the Gatherers

by O'Hanlon, Michael; Welsch, Robert Louis

• ISBN13: 9781571818119
• ISBN10: 1571818111
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	xiii
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(34)
Michael O'Hanlon
Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts	35	(20)
Helen Gardner
Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904	55	(26)
Rainer Buschmann
`Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea	81	(22)
Michael Quinnell
Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898	103	(24)
Elizabeth Edwards
Collecting Pygmies: the `Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910--1911	127	(28)
Chris Ballard
One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea	155	(26)
Robert L. Welsch
The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians	181	(22)
Michael W. Young
Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles	203	(24)
Christian Kaufmann
On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism	227	(24)
Chris Gosden
Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist	251	(22)
Chantal Knowles
Epilogue	273	(6)
Nicholas Thomas
Index	279