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Possessing Culture: Museums, Anthropology and German New Guinea
Possessing Culture Museums Anthropology and German New Guinea Author:Chris Gosden, Chantal Knowles Recent research has paid little tribute to the rich German collections proudly exhibited at the turn of the twentieth century. With the annexation of German New Guinea in 1884, museums turned to this colony as a unique opportunity to augment their collections and their exhibits. Possessing Culture explores the links between collecting exp... more »editions and colonialism using German New Guinea between 1884 and 1914 as a case study. This book examines a number of resultant major collections in Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig and Stuttgart. The authors demonstrate how these played a pivotal role in the German colonial project. Throughout Gosden and Knowles shed new light on the complex histories of colonialism and the often contradictory power relations that they instilled.« less