Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua : Moving Pictures

Lamb, Lara/ Lee, Christopher

Palgrave Macmillan（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 279 p.
• 商品コード 9783031155819

Full Description

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley's colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value. To understand this exchange, a nuanced history of the conditions of the exchange is necessary, which also allows a reconsideration of the colonial legacies that continue to affect the social and political worlds of people in the twenty-first century. 

Contents

1. Introduction .- 2. Exploration, Salvation, Protection, and Development: European Contact and Control in Papua New Guinea .- 3. Frank Hurley in the Gulf of Papua .- 4. The Lure of Barter: Towards an Understanding of Papuan Peoples as Established Agents of Movement and Exchange .- 5. Repatriation or Exchange: Theory and Method .- 6. Contemporary Kerewo and Uraman Responses to Hurley's Expeditions .- 7. Decolonial Aspiration, Postcolonial Agency and the Uses of Heritage .- 8. Conclusion: Public Exchanges and the Decolonising Enfranchisement of Modern Citizens.