Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives, Second Edition

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Title: Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives, Second Edition
Description: This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures. The essays suggest that the custodial role is not fixed and immutable but fluctuates with the perceived importance of the collection, which in turn fluctuates with the level of national interest in the Pacific neighbourhood. This cyclical rise and fall of Australian interest in the Pacific Islands means many of the valuable early collections in state and later national repositories and institutions have been rarely exhibited or published. But, as the authors note, enthusiastic museum anthropologists, curators, collection managers and university-based scholars across Australia, and worldwide, have persisted with research on material collected in the Pacific.
Authors: Susan Cochrane, Editor, Max Quanchi, Editor
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Subjects: Material culture--Collectors and collecting--Australia--History--20th century--Congresses, Research institutes--Australia--Congresses, Ethnological museums and collections--Australia--Congresses, Material culture--Conservation and restoration--Pacific Area--Congresses, Material culture--Collectors and collecting--Australia--History--19th century--Congresses
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