First  cover of 'COLLECTING KAMORO: OBJECTS, ENCOUNTERS AND REPRESENTATION ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF PAPUA.'

COLLECTING KAMORO: OBJECTS, ENCOUNTERS AND REPRESENTATION ON THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF PAPUA.

Jacobs, Karen.

288 pp.; illus., index, biblio.. Series: Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, No.40. Leiden, 2012. Pbk.

book nr. 11794                 € 39,50

The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collec