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. By considering objects as visualizations of social relations, and as enactments of personal, social or historical narrative, this book combines filling a gap in the literature on Kamoro culture with an interest in broader questions that surround the nature of ethnographic collecting, representation, patronage and objectification.
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Publication Date: 31 Dec 2012
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Publication City/Country: Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789088900884
About Karen Jacobs
Dr. Karen Jacobs is Senior Lecturer at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa Oceania and the Americas University of East Anglia. She has worked on various international research projects focusing on the Kamoro region in West Papua on Polynesian Visual Arts the Arts of Fiji and material heritage of British missions in Africa and the Pacific. Her research resulted in a range of exhibitions and publications. Exhibition projects include Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860 (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 2006; Paris Museé du quai Branly- Jacques Chirac 2008) Art and the Body (Fiji Museum 2014) and Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 2016-17). Book projects include Collecting Kamoro (Jacobs 2012) and Trophies Relics and Curios? Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific (Jacobs Knowles & Wingfield 2015).
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