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Colonial Collecting and Display : Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Colección: | Museums and collections.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scientific instruction and personal satisfaction. Colonial Collecting and Display follows the compelling history of a particular set of such objects, tracing their physical and conceptual transformation from objects of Indigenous use to accessioned objects in a museum collection in the south of England. This first study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the Islands' material cultures develops a new analysis of colonial discourse, |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857459428 0857459422 1299777708 9781299777705 0857459414 9780857459411 |