Artefacts of encounter : Cook's voyages, colonial collecting and museum histories
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Thomas Nicholas (1960-....) ; Adams Julie (1969-) ; Lythberg Billie ; Nuku Maia (19..-....) ; Salmond Amiria Manutahi ; Owen Gwil ; Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ;
- Editeurs : Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi press ;
- Date d'édition : [2016]
- ISBN : 978-0-8248-5935-0, 0-8248-5935-9
- Sujets : Culture matérielle -- Catalogues -- Océanie, England Cambridge, Oceania, Ozeanien, Pazifischer Raum, Cook, James, Cambridge University, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology -- Catalogues, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Comprend : Artifacts of encounter
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 348 pages, : Color illustrations, 29 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
'First published by Otago University Press in 2016.' ; Notes bibliogr. p. 326-336. Bibliogr. p. 337-338. Index
Résumé
The Pacific artefacts and works of art collected during the three voyages of Captain James Cook and the navigators, traders and missionaries who followed him are of foundational importance for the study of art and culture in Oceania. These collections are representative not only of technologies or belief systems but of indigenous cultures at the formative stages of their modern histories, and exemplify Islanders' institutions, cosmologies and social relationships. Recently, scholars from the Pacific and further afield, working with Pacific artefacts at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (MAA), have set out to challenge and rethink some longstanding assumptions on their significance. The Cook voyage collection at the MAA is among the four or five most important in the world, containing over 200 of the 2000-odd objects with Cook voyage provenance that are dispersed throughout the world. The collection includes some 100 artefacts dating from Cook's first voyage