Hunting the Gatherers

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

• IntroductionM. O'HanlonChapter 1. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of ArtefactsH. GardnerChapter 2. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870-1904R. BuschmannChapter 3. 'Before it has Become too Late': The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor's Official Collection from British New GuineaM. QuinnellChapter 4. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898E. EdwardsChapter 5. Collecting Pygmies: the 'Tapiro' and the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910-1911C. BallardChapter 6. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New GuineaR.WelschChapter 7. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the AntiquariansM. YoungChapter 8. Felix Speiser's Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art StylesC. KaufmannChapter 9. On His Todd: Material Culture and ColonialismC. GosdenChapter 10. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and AnthropologistC. KnowlesEpilogueN. ThomasNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

“... a most welcome book ... Reading this book should irrevocably change how one looks at an ethnographic exhibit ... These wide-ranging articles ... augment our understanding of museums and their objects ... Overall, this is a rich collection of essays, brimming with data and, for the most part, cogently analysed.”  · JRAI