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

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New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (264 pages).
	data file
Physical Medium	polychrome
Series	Museums and Collections
	Museums and collections.
Contents	List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction: Imperial Encounters and Material Culture; Chapter 1: Production, Use, Exchange -- Spheres of Influence in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chapter 2: Colonial Perspectives on Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chaper 3: Wider Spheres of Influence -- The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Chapter 4: Public Property -- The Andaman and Nicobar Islands at Brighton Museum, 1900-1949; Chapter 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,
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Material culture -- Collectors and collecting -- India -- Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
	Material culture.
	Collectors and collecting.
	India.
	India -- Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
	Museums -- Collection management -- Great Britain.
	Museums -- Collection management.
	Great Britain.
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia.
	Colonies.
	Asia.
	Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Wintle, Claire. Colonial Collecting and Display : Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2013 9780857459411
ISBN	9780857459428 (electronic book)
	0857459422 (electronic book)
	1299777708 (e-book)
	9781299777705 (e-book)
	0857459414
	9780857459411
	9780857459411 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

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

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