Hoarding New Guinea: Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures - Couverture rigide

Buschmann, Rainer F.

 
9781496234643: Hoarding New Guinea: Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures
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ISBN 10 : 1496234642 ISBN 13 : 9781496234643
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2023

Synopsis

Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe's colonial past in ethnographic museums. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea from 1870 to 1920. Reversing the typical trajectories that place ethnographic museums at the center of the analysis, he concludes that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts.

Buschmann moves beyond the easy definition of artifacts as trophies of colonial defeat or religious conversion, instead employing the term hoarding to describe the irrational amassing of Indigenous artifacts by European colonial residents. Buschmann also highlights Indigenous material culture as a bargaining chip for its producers to engage with the imposed colonial regime. In addition, by centering an area of collection rather than an institution, he opens new areas of investigation that include non-professional ethnographic collectors and a sustained rather than superficial consideration of Indigenous peoples as producers behind the material culture. Hoarding New Guinea answers the call for a more significant historical focus on colonial ethnographic collections in European museums.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rainer F. Buschmann is program chair and a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands. He is the author of several books, including Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899 and Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496234642
ISBN 13 
9781496234643
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
284
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