PACIFIC PRESENCES VOLUME 2

CLARK,ALISON

ISBN 10: 9088906262 / ISBN 13: 9789088906268

Verlag: Sidestone Press, 2018

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers NWUS9789088906268

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Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in ancestral forms and practices. This two-volume book enlarges understandings of Oceanic art and enables new reflection upon museums and ways of working in and around them. In dialogue with Islanders' perspectives, It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of scholars and curators to work collaboratively and responsively. Volume II illustrates the sheer variety of Pacific artefacts and histories in museums, and similarly the heterogeneity of the issues and opportunities that they raise. Over thirty essays explore materialities, collection histories, legacies of empire, and contemporary projects. Contents Preface Introduction Part one: Materialities 1. Fibre Skirts: Continuity and Change Erna Lilje 2. Tangible Diversity: Shell Money from the Bismarck Archipelago Katherine Szabo 3. Aitutaki Patterns or Listening to the Voices of the Ancestors: Research on Aitutaki ta'unga in European Museums Michaela Appel and Ngaa Kitai Taria Pureariki 4. Unpacking cosmologies: frigate bird and turtle shell headdresses in Nauru Maia Nuku 5. Reaching across the Ocean': Presences of barkcloth in Oceania and beyond Anna-Karina Hermkens 6. 'U'u: an unfinished inquiry into the history and adornment of Marquesan clubs Nicholas Thomas Part two: Collection histories and exhibitions 7. Haphazard Histories: Tracing Kanak Collections in UK Museums Julie Adams 8. Inaccuracies, inconsistencies and implications: Researching Kiribati coconut fibre armour in UK collections Polly Bence 9. Two Germanies: Ethnographic Museums, (Post)colonial Exhibitions, and the 'Cold Odyssey' of Pacific Objects between East and West Philipp Schorch 10. Museum Dreams: The Rise and Fall of a 'Port-Vila Museum Peter Brunt 11. From Russia with Love: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's Pacific collections Elena Govor 12. Collecting procedure unknown: contextualising the Max Biermann collection in the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich Hilke Thode-Arora 13. Made to measure: Photographs from the Templeton Crocker expedition Lucie Carreau 14. German women collectors in the Pacific: Elizabeth Krämer-Bannow and Antonie Brandeis Amiria Salmond 15. Work on paper: The illustration of customary life in Oceanic art Nicholas Thomas Part three: Legacies of Empire 16. Kings, Rangatira and Relationships: the enduring meanings of 'treasure' exchanges between M¿ori and Europeans in 1830s Whangaroa Deidre Brown 17. History and Cultural Identity: Commemorating the arrival of the British in Kiribati Alison Clark 18. Willful amnesia? Contemporary Dutch narratives about western New Guinea Fanny Wonu Veys 19. A glimmering presence: the unheard Melanesian voices of St Barnabas Memorial Chapel, Norfolk Island Lucie Carreau 20. The church at Titikaveka: a Rarotongan barkcloth from the 1840s Nicholas Thomas 21. 'The woman who walks' Lucy Evelyn Cheesman and her collection from western New Guinea at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Katharina Haslwanter 22. An early ngatu tahina in Stockholm Nicholas Thomas 23. Makereti and the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1921-1930, and Beyond Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Jeremy Coote

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Lucie Carreau Is A Researcher Based At The Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology (Maa), University Of Cambridge. Educated At The École Du Louvre (Paris) And Sainsbury Research Unit (Norwich), Her Work Focuses On The History Of Collecting And Collections In The19th Century And Early 20th Century And The Role Of Objects In Mediating Relationships Between Pacific Islanders And European Visitors.

She Previously Worked As A Researcher On The 'Artefacts Of Encounter' Project (2010-2011, Esrc) And 'Fijian Art' Project (2011-2014, Ahrc) At Maa, Where She Co-Curated The Exhibition Chiefs & Governors: Art And Power In Fiji (2013-2014).

Dr. Alison Clark is a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. She currently works on the ERC funded Pacific Presences project. Both her masters (2007) and PhD (2013) theses on the Indigenous Australian collections of the British Museum drew on the work of Anthony Forge. Her current research is focused on Kiribati, where she is interested in the contemporary resonance of historic museum collections, and the revival of certain cultural practices. She has previously worked on projects at the British Museum and the October Gallery in London.

Key publications:

2017, with Nicholas Thomas, 'Style and Meaning: Essays on the anthropology of art' (Leiden: Sidestone Press).

2014, 'What Happens Next? Sustaining Relationships Beyond the Life of a Research Project', Journal of Museum Ethnography, No.27.

2013, 'Eliciting a History, Reflections on a Photograph Album', in Adams, Burt, Bonshek, Bolton and Thomas (eds.) Melanesia Art and Encounter 2013 pp.64-66

Alana Jelinek Is A Practising Artist, Exhibiting Nationally And Internationally For Over 25 Years. She Works In A Wide Range Of Media, Including Participatory, Film, Sound, Novel-Writing And Painting. From 2009 Until 2017 She Worked With The Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology, University Of Cambridge, First As Arts And Humanities Research Fellow (2009-2014) And Then As Senior Researcher For Pacific Presences (2013-2018), Making Site-Specific Work And Responding To The Collections And Their Histories In Order To Explore Legacies Of Colonialism.

She Has Written On Art For The Journal Of Social Anthropology, Ethnos And The International Encyclopedia Of Anthropology, And Her Monograph 'This Is Not Art' (2013) Theorises The Discipline Of Art From The Perspective Gained Through Her Years With The Museum. She Is Currently Fellow Of Art And Public Engagement With The University Of Hertfordshire.

Erna Lilje Pursues The Idea That Collections Can Reveal More About The People Who Made And Used The Artefacts They Hold By Bringing To Bear An Interdisciplinary Approach That Combines A Close Examination Of These With Field-Based Research. She Believes That The Most Quotidian Objects Can Offer Insights Into The Lives Of Those People Least Represented In Historical Sources, Such As Women. Erna's Interest In The Physicality Of Artefacts, And The Processes Used To Make Them, Stems From Her Art Practice And Her Focus On Papua New Guinea Has Foundations In Her Own Heritage.

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Thomas was an undergraduate at the Australian National University from 1979 to 1982; his BA (Honours) thesis, on Fijian politics, was supervised by Anthony Forge. He visited the Pacific first in 1984 to undertake doctoral research in the Marquesas Islands and has since written extensively on exploration and cross-cultural encounters and on art histories in the Pacific. He has been Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge since 2006. Key publications: 2016, (with Maia Nuku, Julie Adams, Billie Lythberg and Amiria Salmond) Artefacts of Encounter: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories. Otago: Otago University Press. 2016, The return of curiosity: what museums are good for in the twenty first century. London: Reaktion / Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012, (with Peter Brunt, Sean Mallon, Lissant Bolton, Deidre Brown, Damian Skinner and Susanne Kuechler) Art in Oceania: a new history. London: Thames and Hudson / New Haven: Yale University Press. Awarded the Art Book Prize

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Titel: PACIFIC PRESENCES VOLUME 2
Verlag: Sidestone Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: NEW