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Colonial Collecting and Display : Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands / Claire Wintle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Museums and Collections ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857459411
  • 9780857459428
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 23
LOC classification:
  • GN635.I4 W56 2013
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of the Andaman Islands -- Map of the Nicobar Islands -- Introduction: Imperial Encounters and Material Culture -- 1 Production, Use, Exchange: Spheres of Influence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- 2 Colonial Perspectives on Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- 3 Wider Spheres of Influence: Th e Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- 4 Public Property: Th e Andaman and Nicobar Islands at Brighton Museum, 1900–1949 -- 5 Objects and Encounters Today -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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, using a material culture-led approach to reconceptualize imperial relationships between Andamanese, Nicobarese, and British communities, both in the Bay of Bengal and on British soil. It critiques established conceptions of the act of collecting, arguing for recognition of how indigenous makers and consumers impacted upon "British" collection practices, and querying the notion of a homogenous British approach to material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of the Andaman Islands -- Map of the Nicobar Islands -- Introduction: Imperial Encounters and Material Culture -- 1 Production, Use, Exchange: Spheres of Influence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- 2 Colonial Perspectives on Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands -- 3 Wider Spheres of Influence: Th e Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Victorian and Edwardian Britain -- 4 Public Property: Th e Andaman and Nicobar Islands at Brighton Museum, 1900–1949 -- 5 Objects and Encounters Today -- Bibliography -- Index

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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, using a material culture-led approach to reconceptualize imperial relationships between Andamanese, Nicobarese, and British communities, both in the Bay of Bengal and on British soil. It critiques established conceptions of the act of collecting, arguing for recognition of how indigenous makers and consumers impacted upon "British" collection practices, and querying the notion of a homogenous British approach to material culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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