1st Edition
Collecting Colonialism Material Culture and Colonial Change
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Colonialism has shaped the world we live in today and has often been studied at a global level, but there is less understanding of how colonial relations operated locally. This book takes twentieth-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, and charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through the flow of material culture. Exploring the links between colonialism and material... Read more
1 People, Objects and Colonial Relations 2 Colonial Culture and History in West New Britain 3 The Collectors and their Collections 4 Albert Buell Lewis 5 Felix Speiser 6 John Alexander Todd 7 Beatrice Blackwood 8 Comparing the Collections : Experiment, Social Relations and Agency 9 Varieties of Colonialism 10 The Morality of Colonialism
Biography
Chris Gosden is Curator and University Lecturer in World Archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Chantal Knowles is Curator of Ethnography, National Museums of Scotland.
