Bonshek Elizabeth Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage (1907774394)
In 1928 in Tikopia Firth made a collection he saw as a scientific record of a culture. Bonshek revisits the objects' documentation & ethnography to highlight the social relations the collecting process illuminates and to acknowledge Tikopia voices. She charts its later role in museums in the transmission of 'cultural heritage' between generations.
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