Hunting the Gatherers

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