Colonial and postcolonial museum collecting in Papua New Guinea

David Lipset

doi:10.1111/taja.12149

Colonial and postcolonial museum collecting in Papua New Guinea

David Lipset

Anthropology (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

This essay contrasts early and later colonial collecting by anthropologists and museum scientists in Melanesia with the postcolonial collecting in which I participated in the 1980s under the auspices of the Australian Museum (1987). My contention is that museum collections made during early colonialism took place in a relatively hierarchical and androcentric context of moral difference. In subsequent phases of the colonial era, as well as in the ongoing postcolonial period, anthropological collecting sought, and continues to seek, egalitarian and gender inclusive dialogue with vendors; in part by drawing from local metaphors and idioms to express status inclusivity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	333-352
Number of pages	20
Journal	Australian Journal of Anthropology
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12149
State	Published - Dec 1 2016

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Funding Information:
The research on which this article is based was funded by the Australian Museum and the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. A first draft was written for a session in honour of Douglas Newton that was organised by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Eric K. Silverman and held at the 2003 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago Ill.

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Keywords

Papua New Guinea
Sepik/Northcoast
anthropology
colonial and postcolonial collecting
museums

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