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Author Jacobs, Karen, 1976- author.

Title Collecting Kamoro : objects, encounters and representation in Papua (Western New Guinea) / Karen Jacobs.

Publication Info. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Physical Medium polychrome.
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Series Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, 0169-9156 ; no. 40
Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden ; no. 40. 0169-9156
Note "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.
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.
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Subject Mimika (Indonesian people)
Mimika (Indonesian people)
Mimika (Indonesian people) -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Mimika (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Collectors and collecting -- Indonesia -- Papua -- History.
Collectors and collecting.
Indonesia -- Papua.
History.
Art, Mimika.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Indonesia -- Papua.
Art, Mimika.
Material culture -- Indonesia -- Papua.
Ethnology -- Fieldwork.
Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Papua (Indonesia) -- Ethnic relations.
Material culture.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Note Subtitle on cover: Objects, encounters and representation on the southwest coast of Papua
Other Form: Print version: Jacobs, Karen, 1976- Collecting Kamoro. Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2011] 9789088900884 (OCoLC)822619032
ISBN 9789088901829 (electronic book)
9088901821 (electronic book)
9789088900884
9088900884
ISSN 0169-9156