Colonial Collecting and Display : Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

By:

Wintle, Claire

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Museums and collectionsPublication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780857459428
0857459422
1299777708
9781299777705
0857459414
9780857459411

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Colonial Collecting and Display : Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.DDC classification:

930.1 23

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GN635.I4 W56 2013

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Contents:

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction: Imperial Encounters and Material Culture; Chapter 1: Production, Use, Exchange -- Spheres of Influence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chapter 2: Colonial Perspectives on Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chaper 3: Wider Spheres of Influence -- The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Chapter 4: Public Property -- The Andaman and Nicobar Islands at Brighton Museum, 1900-1949; Chapter 5: Objects and Encounters Today; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing their physical and conceptual transformation from objects of indigenous use to accessioned objects in a museum collection in the south of England. This first study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the Islands' material cultures develops a new analysis of colonial discourse,

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In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing their physical and conceptual transformation from objects of indigenous use to accessioned objects in a museum collection in the south of England. This first study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the Islands' material cultures develops a new analysis of colonial discourse,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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