Pacific Presences - Volume 1

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-8890-590-2
Verlag: Sidestone Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 263 mm, Gewicht: 943 g

Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in ancestral forms and practices.

This two-volume book enlarges understandings of Oceanic art and enables new reflection upon museums and ways of working in and around them. In dialogue with Islanders’ perspectives, It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of scholars and curators to work collaboratively and responsively.

Volume I focuses on the historical formation of ethnographic museums within Europe, the making of those institutions’ Pacific collections, and the activation and re-activation of those collections, over time and in the present.

This books is part of the Pacific Presences series. Click here to see the other volumes in this series.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carreau, Lucie

Clark, Alison

Jelinek, Alana

Lilje, Erna

Thomas, Nicholas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Biographies
Preface
Introduction

1. Pacific Presences in Britain
Nicholas Thomas

2. Curiosity, Revolution, Science and Art: Pacific collections and French Museums
Lucie Carreau

3. Papua collections in the Netherlands: a story of exploration, research, missionization, and colonization
Fanny Wonu Veys

4. Oceania in Russian history: Expeditions, collections, museums
Elena Govor

5. Oceanic Collections in German Museums: Collections, Contexts, and Exhibits
Rainer Buschmann

Notes
Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. dr. Nicholas Thomas:

Nicholas Thomas did doctoral research in the Marquesas Islands and has since written extensively on exploration and cross-cultural encounters and on art histories in the Pacific. He has been Director of the Museum of Archaeol