Possessing Culture Museums, Anthropology and German New Guinea
by Gosden, Chris; Knowles, ChantalEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2015-01-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary
Recent research has paid little tribute to the rich German collections proudly exhibited at the turn of the twentieth century. With the annexation of German New Guinea in 1884, museums turned to this colony as a unique opportunity to augment their collections and their exhibits. Possessing Culture explores the links between collecting expeditions and colonialism using German New Guinea between 1884 and 1914 as a case study. This book examines a number of resultant major collections in Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig and Stuttgart. The authors demonstrate how these played a pivotal role in the German colonial project. Throughout Gosden and Knowles shed new light on the complex histories of colonialism and the often contradictory power relations that they instilled.
Author Biography
Chris Gosden is Curator and University Lecturer in World Archaeology at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
Chantal Knowles is Curator of Ethnography at National Museum of Scotland.
Chantal Knowles is Curator of Ethnography at National Museum of Scotland.
Table of Contents
German Anthropology and Its Colonial Links * The Germans in New Guinea * Collecting Practices * Collecting Practices II * The Ethnography of the Arawes * The Collections and Their Later Histories * The Collections and Their Later Histories II * Collectors and Collections from Southwestern New Britain * The Particularity of German Colonialism and Museology
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