Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

by Robert Louis Welsch and Robert L. Welsch

Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571818111
• ISBN13: 9781571818119
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"