Colonial Collecting and Display: Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

by Claire Wintle

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0857459414

ISBN13:9780857459411

Release Date:May 2013

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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