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This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importa...

Pacific Islanders --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Anthropological collections --- Anthropology --- Museums --- Oceanians --- Ethnology

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Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal villagers. Such grassroots sport, however, is rarely studied and has never previously been the subject of an ethnographic monograph. This book represents a pioneering study of the history and effects of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea. We Are Playing Football explores Panapompom people's attempts to recreate the international game, and the soc...

Soccer --- Men --- Melanesians --- Ethnology --- Pacific Islanders --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Association football --- English football --- European football --- Football (Soccer) --- Football --- History. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects. --- Psychology. --- Social life and customs.