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Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of artifacts that continue to serve as witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Itinerant Yet Stubbornly Stable European Value of Material Culture, Circa 1870–1920
2. Ethnographic Resident Collection Networks in German New Guinea
3. Contested Indigenous Borderlands
4. Artifact Exchanges along the Ethnographic Borderlands
Conclusion
Appendix: Three Ways of Estimating Artifact Extraction from German New Guinea
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands. He is the author of several books, including
Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507–1899 and
Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870–1935.
Riassunto
Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of artifacts that continue to serve as witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethnographic museums.
