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Creating Authenticity
‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discrete bounded entities, subject to divergence but precisely therefore also to be traced back and linked to, a more complete original form in de (even) deeper past. Much of what we work with today in ...
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Collecting Kamoro
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.
Stone Artefact Production and Exchange Among the Lesser Antilles
This archaeological study reconstructs Pre-Columbian exchange networks in the Lesser Antilles based on lithic artefact distributions among the different islands.
Asmat Art
Asmat Art features the world renowned woodcarvings of the Asmat, former head-hunters who live in the western half of New Guinea This book presents a full range of Asmat woodcarving art, but emphasizes the rare early shields and figure sculptures. Drums, canoe prowheads and the larger, more dramatic "objects" are also shown. Together with bisj poles, war shields are perhaps the most famous creation of Asmat artists, and these were carved throughout the region. It is in the design and construction of the shields that the variations in style region can most clearly be seen. Figure sculptures, of varying styles, are also well represented here, and a limited number of the huge ceremonial carvings, such as bisj poles and basu suangkus, have also been included. The cultural context in which these items play their part is described in detail in the introductory chapters. But it is not the intention of this book to be an ethnography. The focus is on the art pieces themselves.
Forgotten Islands of Indonesia
This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago. The traditional art of Maluku Tenggara, the Southeast Moluccas, is among the most sophisticated and expressive in the world. Simple tools were used to create masterpieces in wood, stone, textiles and precious metals, while the plaited work and earthenware of these islands are also of the very highest quality. the colonial period plunged the region into hopeless isolation. During the harsh rule of the Dutch many traditional woks of art, especially ancestor statues, were destroyed. Later, collectors stripped the islands of the...
Art and Performance in Oceania
The Fifth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, titled "Art, Performance, and Society," called for papers in sessions dealing with "Production and Performance," "Social and Cultural Context," "The Record and the Remainder," and "The Mission of Museums." In all, some sixty papers were presented, twenty-four of which have been included in this book. The first two topics elicited several papers that explored the creative process, including the description and analysis of performance, and the taxonomy of objects used, the transmission of cultural knowledge, and the identity and work of individual artists. The second two topics provided the opportunity for papers on some significant early museum collectors and collections, various methods of documenting cultural material (such as photography), how cultural material has been and can be exhibited, and the role of museums and cultural centers in Pacific Island countries.
Nassau en Oranje in gebrandschilderd glas 1503-2005
In de loop van de eeuwen zijn talloze gebrandschilderde glas-in-loodramen gemaakt met voorstellingen die verwijzen naar het Huis Oranje-Nassau. Ze zijn door heel Nederland te vinden, enkele zelfs in het buitenland. Vroeger traden de prinsen van Oranje vaak op als schenkers. In de negentiende eeuw veranderde dat en waren het vooral privé-initiatieven. Aanleidingen waren belangrijke gebeurtenissen als inhuldigingen, regeringsjubilea, eeuwfeesten, huwelijken en geboortes. In dit boek zijn zo’n 130 van deze gebrandschilderde glas- in-loodramen opgenomen. De beschrijvingen en afbeeldingen tonen de geschiedenis en betekenis van de ramen. De inleidingen, geschreven door E. van Heuven-van Nes, S. Groenveld en D.B.M. Hermans, behandelen de historische achtergronden van het Huis Oranje-Nassau, de glasschenkingen en de techniek van het maken van glas in lood. Dit prachtig geïllustreerde boek, het eerste over dit thema, belicht op bijzondere wijze de relatie tussen het Huis Oranje-Nassau en de Nederlanden.
