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Author Jacobs, Karen, 1976- author.

Title Collecting Kamoro : objects, encounters and representation in Papua (Western New Guinea) / Karen Jacobs
Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map
Series Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, 0169-9156 ; no. 40
Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 40. 0169-9156
Contents pt. 1. Integration -- pt. 2. Representation -- pt. 3. Objectification
Summary 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
Notes "Published in cooperation with the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden."--Title page verso
"The book is based on doctoral research conducted between 1999 and 2003, supplemented by additional collections research and two further visits to Papua in 2005 (to hand over my thesis) and 2011"--Page 1
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-263) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mimika (Indonesian people)
Mimika (Indonesian people) -- Antiquities
Mimika (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs
Collectors and collecting -- Indonesia -- Papua -- History
Art, Mimika.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Indonesia -- Papua
Material culture -- Indonesia -- Papua
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Art, Mimika
Collectors and collecting
Ethnic relations
Ethnology -- Fieldwork
Manners and customs
Material culture
Mimika (Indonesian people)
SUBJECT Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Papua (Indonesia) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Indonesia -- Papua
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789088901829
9088901821
ISSN 0169-9156
Other Titles Subtitle on cover: Objects, encounters and representation on the southwest coast of Papua