TY - BOOK ID - 100237131 TI - Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s AU - O'Hanlon, Michael AU - Welsch, Robert Louis PY - 2000 VL - v. 6) SN - 1571818111 0857456911 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnological museums and collections KW - Museums KW - Material culture KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Anthropologie sociale et culturelle KW - Musées KW - Culture matérielle KW - Collectionneurs et collections KW - History. KW - Acquisitions KW - Musées et collections KW - Histoire KW - Melanesia KW - Mélanésie KW - Antiquities KW - Collection and preservation. KW - Antiquités KW - Collections et préservation KW - Ethnology KW - Fieldwork KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Public institutions KW - Cabinets of curiosities KW - Ethnological collections KW - Anthropological museums and collections KW - Collectibles KW - Collecting KW - Collection and preservation KW - Art KW - Hobbyists KW - Oceania UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100237131 AB - 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. ER -