Collecting, ordering, governing : anthropology, museums, and liberal government

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    • Bennett, Tony

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Collecting, ordering, governing : anthropology, museums, and liberal government

Tony Bennett ... [et al.]

Duke University Press, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-323) and index

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The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musee de l'Homme's 1930s fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering, Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.

Table of Contents

Illustrations vii Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii Note on the Text xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Collecting, Ordering, Governning 9 2. Curatorial Logics and Colonial Rule: The Political Rationalities of Anthropology in Two Australian-Administered Territories 51 3. A Liberal Archive of Everyday Life: Mass-Observation as Oligopticon 89 4. Boas and After: Museum Anthropology and the Governance of Difference in America 131 5. Producing "The Maori as He Was": New Zealand Museums, Anthropological Governance, and Indigenous Agency 175 6. Ethnology, Governance, and Greater France 217 Conclusion 255 Notes 273 References 291 Contributors 325 Index 327

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