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Possessing culture : museums, anthropology and German New Guinea
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Possessing culture : museums, anthropology and German New Guinea

Author: Chris Gosden; Chantal Knowles
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Tracing such mysteries, Gosden and Knowles shed new light on the complex histories of colonialism and the often contradictory power relations that it instilled. This absorbing book will appeal to all  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Chris Gosden; Chantal Knowles
ISBN: 1859736556 9781859736555 1859736602 9781859736609
OCLC Number: 56644608
Description: 224 p. : ill.
Contents: German Anthropology and its Colonial Links * The Germans in New Guinea: Colonialism and Collection * Collecting Practices I * Collecting Practices II * The Ethnography of the Arawes * The Collections and their Later Histories I * The Collections and their Later Histories II * Collectors and Collections from Southwestern New Britain * The Particularity of German Colonialism and Museology
Responsibility: Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles.

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