Description: HUNTING THE GATHERERS - ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTORS, AGENTS AND AGENCY IN MELANESIA, 1870s - 1930s by Michael O'hanlon - Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Robert Walsh - teacher of anthropology, Dartmouth College. Published by Berghahn Books as part of the series: Methodology and History in Anthropology, Volume 6. 286 page hardcover in like new condition. 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, as the artefacts have been variously exhibited, neglected, re-conceived as indigenous heritage, or repatriated. In doing this, the contributors raise issues of current interest in anthropology, Pacific history, art history, museology, and material culture. SEE THE OTHER FINE TRIBAL ART BOOKS I HAVE LISTED. I'm selling one of the largest and most comprehensive Oceanic Art libraries in the United States so keep any eye on my auctions. I don't use stock photos...I show actual book with previews of content. All books properly packed in a box or heavily reinforced envelope for safe travels! 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Please let me know if you have any questions
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