Collecting Colonialism - Material Culture and Colonial Change

Taking 20th-century Papua New Guinea as its focus, this work charts the changes in colonial relationships as they were expressed through material culture. It analyzes the insights that museum collections can provide into social relations.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

'The book is nicely written and suitable for advanced undergraduates and above.'Choice

Product details

• Authors: Chris Gosden, Chris Knowles Gosden, Gosden Chris, Chantal Knowles, Knowles Chantal
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2020, delayed
• EAN: 9781859734032
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-403-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence