Format:
Online-Ressource (291 p)
ISBN:
9789088900884
Series Statement:
Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde v.40
Content:
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between repr
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Meet the Kamoro; Representational encounters; Agency of representation; Collecting Kamoro; What is collecting?; What is Kamoro?; Outline; What is collected? A brief note on 'material culture', 'objects' and 'art'; PART ONE: INTEGRATION; 2 Exploring and settling; I. 'Discovering' Kamoro objects: early expeditions; II. Establishing Dutch presence; 1)Establishment of the Roman Catholic Mission; 2) Administration; 3 Colonial collectors; I. Competing institutions and their collectors; 1)Carel M. A. Groenevelt; 2)Jan Pouwer
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3)Field collecting: methods and motivationsII. Mission(s) of Integration; 1)Mission patronage; 2)Franciscan mission of integration; III. Salvaging integration?; IV. Further integration: the Vatican Council; PART TWO: REPRESENTATION; 4 Becoming part of a nation-state; I. Indonesia's national policy (1945-98); 1)Creating a national feeling; 2)Cultural policy as a tool for 'Indonesianization'; II. Economic development: Freeport; 1)A history of controversy; III. Freeport as patron; 1)Cultural preservation; 2)Patronage or patronising?; 3)Exhibitions in Jakarta
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IV. Corporate businesses and the nation-state1)Pancasila and development; 2)Unity in Diversity: the Irian Jaya Room; 3)Nation-state responsibility?; 5 Kamoro Arts Festival; I. Kamoro Festival: the beginnings (1998-2000); II. The fourth Kamoro Arts Festival: April 26-29, 2001; 1)The selection process; 2)The auction; 3)Dance performances; 4)Canoe races; 5)Preparation and distribution of traditional food; III. Festival as forum for representation; 1)Organisers; 2)Audience; 3)Participants; 4)Complementary objectives?; PART THREE: OBJECTIFICATION; 6 Festival auction
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I. Art auctions as performancesII. A Kamoro auction uncovered; 1)Catalogue; 2)Viewing; 3)The sale; III. 'They have to learn': picking pieces; 7 Displaying Kamoro; I.Displaying commodities; 1)Exhibiting commodities; 2)Collecting commodities; II. Contact objects; 1)Stories; 2)Absence versus presence; III. Representational encounters: an epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789088901829
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789088900884
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Collecting Kamoro : Objects, Encounters and Representation on the Southwest Coast of Papua
Language:
English
Keywords:
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