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Record Nr.

UNINA9910637728003321

Autore

Lamb Lara

Titolo

Repatriation, exchange, and colonial legacies in the Gulf of Papua : moving pictures / / Lara Lamb and Christopher Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-031-15579-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Disciplina

344.094

Soggetti

Cultural property - Repatriation

Intercultural communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Moving Pictures -- Collecting Cultural Artefacts in the Gulf Region of Papua New Guinea -- Frank Hurley and the Papua Expeditions -- Colonial Discourse and Interdisciplinary Methodology -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2 Exploration, Salvation, Protection, and Development: European Contact and Control in Papua New Guinea -- "First Contact": Voyages of Exploration -- The London Missionary Society -- Colonial Administration: British Protectorate, British-Australian Colony, Australian Territory -- The Goaribari Expeditions 1901-1904 -- Administrative Control of Labour -- Agricultural Development: Plantations -- Systems of Surveillance: Law and Order, Health and Hygiene -- "Understanding the Native": Salvation, Science, Governance -- References -- 3 Frank Hurley in the Gulf of Papua -- Hurley's Papuan Expeditions 1920-1923 -- The Dispute Between Hurley and the Papuan Administration -- Reception and Distribution of Hurley's Work -- References -- 4 The Lure of Barter: An Understanding of Papuan Peoples as Established Agents of Movement and Exchange -- The "Lure of Barter" -- The Myth of First Contact: Language and Migration -- The Myth of First Contact: Trade and Exchange -- Village and Community -- Wartime -- Post-World War Two -- References -- 5 Visual Repatriation or Exchange? Theory



and Method -- Theory -- Method -- Gulf Field Trip, February 2012 -- Kerewo Leaders at the Australian Museum, Sydney, September 2012 -- Gulf Field Trip, December 2013 -- Gulf Field Trip, November 2016 -- Ambiguities and Limitations -- References -- 6 Contemporary Kerewo and Urama Responses to Frank Hurley's Collection -- Identifying Ancestors -- Intergenerational Loss, Preservation, and Change -- Knowledge by Acquaintance -- Knowledge by Description.

The Agency of Photographs -- The Relational Quality of a Museum Collection -- Thoughts on Material Repatriation -- "Pearls and Savages, Geez What a Title": Attitudes Towards the Man, the Photographs, and the Film -- References -- 7 Decolonial Aspiration, Postcolonial Agency, and the Uses of Heritage -- References -- 8 Conclusion: Public Exchanges and the Decolonising Enfranchisement of Modern Citizens -- References -- Index.