Anthropology's global histories : the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 / Rainer...
Anthropology's global histories : the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 / Rainer...
Anthropology's global histories : the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 / Rainer F. Buschmann.
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Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009.
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N301.02395/1
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English
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x, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : toward a global history of anthropology -- Berlin's monopoly -- Commercializing the ethnographic frontier -- Losing the monopoly -- Restructuring ethnology and imperialism -- Albert Hahl and the colonization of the ethnographic frontier -- Indigenous reactions -- The ethnographic fron...
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Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009.
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Hawaii
Date Published
c2009.
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"Buschmann explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. He shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a...
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Anthropology's global histories : the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935 / Rainer F. Buschmann.
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Perspectives on the global past.
Perspectives on the global past.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-227) and index.
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c2009.
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N301.02395/1
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74VM4ppAOdPy
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9780824831844 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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301.023953
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991001314769702626
