8. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Notes on contributors xiii
5. Preface xvii
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Gathering for God: George Brown and the Christian Economy in the Collection of Artefacts 35
8. 3. Exploring Tensions in Material Culture: Commercialising Ethnography in German New Guinea, 1870–1904 55
9. 4. ‘Before it has Become too Late’: The Making and Repatriation of Sir William MacGregor’s Official Collection from British New Guinea 81
10. 5. Surveying Culture: Photography, Collecting and Material Culture in British New Guinea, 1898 103
11. 6. Collecting Pygmies: the ‘Tapiro’ and the British Ornithologists’ Union Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1910–1911 127
12. 7. One Time, One Place, Three Collections: Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum Collections from German New Guinea 155
13. 8. The Careless Collector: Malinowski and the Antiquarians 181
14. 9. Felix Speiser’s Fletched Arrow: A Paradigm Shift from Physical Anthropology to Art Styles 203
15. 10. On His Todd: Material Culture and Colonialism 227
16. 11. Reverse Trajectories: Beatrice Blackwood as Collector and Anthropologist 251
17. 12. Epilogue 273
18. Index 279