Ethnology collections as supplements and records

Nineteenth-century ethnological collections can supplement what is found in archaeological assemblages because they include objects unlikely to appear on archaeological sites, which either don't normally preserve, are extremely rare or were intentionally destroyed in the past. However, collections are not neutral samples of what existed in past societies. They are biased by what collectors chose to take, and what was offered by the makers of ethnological objects. Collections, then, also represent an important record of agency in colonial exchanges. An archaeological survey of nineteenth-century Presbyterian missions and the surrounding landscapes in the southern New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) included analysis of museum collections from the same era. These objects provide evidence of the active, mutually constitutive role of things and interpersonal relationships in shaping cross-cultural exchanges

Agency (philosophy · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Historical archaeology · New Hebrides · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

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• Australasian Historical Archaeology

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• Reassembling the Social

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• Missionization, Material Culture Collecting, and Nineteenth-Century Representations in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)

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• Archaeology and the colonial encounter

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• An Artefact of Colonial Desire

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• Encounters with the Enemy? Academic Readings of Missionary Narratives on Melanesians

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