Colonial Ambitions and Collecting Anxieties
Aboriginal Objects and Western Australian Frontiers, 1828–1914
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 May 2025
- ISBN 9781032695600
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 Illustrations, black & white; 32 Halftones, black & white; 1 Tables, black & white 660
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Short description:
This book assesses how non-Aboriginal collectors understood Aboriginal objects, and what this reveals about colonial relationships, anxieties and ambitions.
MoreLong description:
European portrayals of Aboriginal people and their objects have long had political implications. This book explores ‘ethnographic’ objects from Western Australia now in British and Irish museums, and is the first full scholarly treatment of their part in fashioning colonial relationships and identities over the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It scrutinises a body of material that once sparked extensive scholarly and popular interest, but has since been largely overlooked in scholarship into the relationship between collecting and empire.
This book assesses how non-Aboriginal collectors understood Aboriginal objects, and what this reveals about colonial relationships, anxieties and ambitions. Considering objects now spread across the British Isles, it examines intersecting impulses that informed collecting: notions of the ‘frontier’, the navigation of one’s experiences across sites of empire, and the Eurocentric narrative of Aboriginal ‘extinction’, to show how colonial ideology intersected with personal experience. It scrutinises collectors’ own accounts as well as the voices of other individuals involved in collecting episodes, showing how ideas about indigenous peoples were being developed and contested.
Colonial Ambitions and Collecting Anxieties is particularly aimed at scholars of material culture, histories of collecting and empire, cultural heritage workers and other readers interested in museums, colonialism and Australian history.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1
People, objects, identity
Part I: Navigating colonial spaces
Chapter 2
Western Australian collections in the British Isles: a history
Chapter 3
‘Frontier collecting’: anxieties and opportunities
Chapter 4
Tracing colonial ‘careerists’: travels in and across empire
Part II: Collections and power
Chapter 5
‘Home’ on a world stage: Western Australia at the Glasgow Exhibition of 1901
Chapter 6
Mining materials: Aboriginal and settler industry and culture
Chapter 7
Breaking and remaking the settler telegraph
Chapter 8
The Cambridge Expedition
Afterword: Tracing a legacy
Appendix 1
Selective chronology
Appendix 2
Extant objects in British and Irish institutions
Appendix 3
Extant objects in the British Museum
Appendix 4
Key material discussed in chapters
Bibliography
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