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Amiria Henare explores the the study of material culture in the development of anthropology and shows that the collection of artefacts and their formal study, both in museums and in the field, have been central anthropological strategies over the past two centuries. Dr Henare's pioneering work traces the movement across space and time of objects now held in contemporary collections , and using evidence from across the British empire she demonstrates how and why things we re bought, exchanged and stolen, and carried across the oceans to reach their final institutional settings.Read More

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    Amiria Henare demonstrates that the collection of artefacts and their formal study, both in museums and in the field, have been central anthropological strategies over the past two centuries. Henare's pioneering work traces the movement across space and time of objects now held in contemporary collections. Using evidence from across the former British Empire, she demonstrates how and why things were bought, exchanged and stolen, and carried across the oceans to reach their final institutional settings.

  • 0521100747
  • 9780521100748
  • Amiria Henare
  • 11 December 2008
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 344
  • 1
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