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The making of Asmat art : indigenous art in a world perspective / Nick Stanley

Title: The making of Asmat art : indigenous art in a world perspective / Nick Stanley
Author: Stanley, Nick
Publication: Canon Pyon, UK : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2012.

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xiv, 249 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"... explores the way major collections were made and examines the motivations of the collectors, their relationships with those from whom they purchased and the circumstances of the exchange. It also considers the involvement of artists and film-makers, anthropologists, representatives of the civil authorities and missionaries."--back cover.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references ( p. [212]-232) and index

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Absent presences -- The historical appearance of Asmat -- Asmat engagement with the Dutch colonial world, 1949-62 -- Museum scholars and collectors -- Anthropological missionaries and the Indonesian state -- Making carving work: development programs in the 1970s -- The Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress: the revitalization of tradition -- Consolidating new art forms -- Visual adventures -- Dazzling the anthropologists.

ISBN

1907774203
9781907774201

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Harvard Library