Objects As Insights - R.h. Codrington''s Ethnographic Collections From Melanesia

About the author

Professor Nick Stanley is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum. He was previously Director of Research and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. He is a specialist in Asmat art of West Papua, New Guinea.

Summary

A timely study of an important, but often overlooked collector of early Melanesian objects and a pioneering anthropologist of his time, providing important contextual material for many of the objects collected by Codrington now in the British Museum, The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Stanley
• Publisher: British Museum Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780861592357
• ISBN: 978-0-86159-235-7
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: British Museum Research Public; British Museum Research Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous