Hunting the Gatherers (eBook)

Robert L. Welsch teaches at the Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth, New Hampshire.

Michael O'Hanlon is Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

Introduction
M. O'Hanlon

Chapter 1. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts
H. Gardner

Chapter 2. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904
R. Buschmann

Chapter 3. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New Guinea
M. Quinnell

Chapter 4. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898
E. Edwards

Chapter 5. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911
C. Ballard

Chapter 6. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea
R.Welsch

Chapter 7. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians
M. Young

Chapter 8. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles
C. Kaufmann

Chapter 9. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism
C. Gosden

Chapter 10. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist
C. Knowles

Epilogue
N. Thomas

Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index