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Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
90 Seiten
Englisch
British Museum Presserschienen am28.08.2021
A timely study of an important, but often overlooked collector of early Melanesian objects and a pioneering anthropologist of his time, providing important contextual material for many of the objects collected by Codrington now in the British Museum, The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.mehr

Produkt

KlappentextA timely study of an important, but often overlooked collector of early Melanesian objects and a pioneering anthropologist of his time, providing important contextual material for many of the objects collected by Codrington now in the British Museum, The Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
IntroductionChapter 1: ' I have little doubt but that I can get some good things sooner or later': museum demandsChapter 2: 'Matters that lie upon the surface of native life and are open to the observation of the visitor and traveller ': the collections  Chapter 3: 'There was a spirit in my pen': Codrington's visual documentationChapter 4: 'It has rained shell adzes today, large and small': tradingChapter 5: On stones and poised arrows : Codrington on manaConclusion: Codrington´s importance todayBibliographyIndexmehr

Autor

Professor Nick Stanley is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum. He was previously Director of Research and Chair of Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England. He is a specialist in Asmat art of West Papua, New Guinea.