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Collecting in the South Sea

Beschreibung

This book is a study of 'collecting' undertaken by Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and his shipmates in Tasmania, the western Pacific Islands, and Indonesia. In 1791-1794 Bruni d'Entrecasteaux led a French naval expedition in search of the lost vessels of La Pérouse which had last been seen by Europeans at Botany Bay in March 1788. After Bruni d'Entrecasteaux died near the end of the voyage and the expedition collapsed in political disarray in Java, its collections and records were subsequently scattered or lost. The book's core is a richly illustrated examination, analysis, and catalogue of a large array of ethnographic objects collected during the voyage, later dispersed, and recently identified in museums in France, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. The focus on artefacts is informed by a broad conception of collecting as grounded in encounters or exchanges with Indigenous protagonists and also as materialized in other genres-written accounts, vocabularies, and visual representations (drawings, engravings, and maps). Historically, the book outlines the antecedents, occurrences, and aftermath of the voyage, including its location within the classic era of European scientific voyaging (1766-1840) and within contemporary colonial networks. Particular chapters trace the ambiguous histories of the extant collections. Ethnographically, contributors are alert to local settings, relationships, practices, and values; to Indigenous uses and significance of objects; to the reciprocal, dialogic nature of collecting; to local agency or innovation in exchanges; and to present implications of objects and their histories, especially for modern scholars and artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.ContentsAbbreviationsPreface and AcknowledgementsPART I: PROLOGUEPART II: ARTEFACT COLLECTIONSPART III: OTHER COLLECTIONSPART IV: RE-INTERPRETATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONSPART V: EPILOGUE PART VI: CATALOGUEContributorsFiguresReferencesIndex

Autor

Bronwen Douglas is honorary professor at the Australian National University in Canberra where she was fellow and senior fellow from 1997-2012. She was previously lecturer and senior lecturer at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) from 1971-1996.A historian of science focussing on Oceania, her main research field is the interplay of global ideas of human difference, race, and geography in European encounters with particular Oceanian people, places, and agency. Her conceptual interests include materiality and use of visual materials, maps, and objects as ethnohistorical texts.

Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys is curator Oceania at the National Museum of World Cultures, a Dutch umbrella organization comprising the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden; the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal; and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam. She has previously worked at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) (2004-2006, 2008-2009) and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (2006-2007) and at the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) (2007-2008).

Dr. Billie Lythberg has been senior research fellow at the University of Auckland Business School (NZ) since 2013, working at the junction of economics, anthropology, and history. Her research interests include Oceanic sciences, arts, and oral histories; cross-cultural theories of value, valuables, and valuation; sustainability and environmental management; and social innovation.She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA, UK) for the Artefacts of Encounter project (2010-2013). She is currently affiliated to Pacific Presences (MAA, UK) and Pacific Spaces (Auckland University of Technology, NZ) and an investigator on three Royal Society research projects at the University of Auckland: Te Ao Hou: Transforming Worlds in New Zealand 1900-1950, Ancient Futures: Late 18th- and Early 19th-century Tongan Arts and their Legacies, and Tangata Tiriti: Learning the Trick of Standing Upright Here.

Produktdetails

• Pacific Presences 3
• Verlag: Sidestone Press
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 182mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1099g
• ISBN-13: 9789088905742
• ISBN-10: 9088905746
• Artikelnr.: 52610514