James Cook : gifts and treasures from the South Seas : the Cook/Forster Collection, Göttingen = Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee : Die Göttinger Sammlung Cook/Forster / edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Gundolf Krüger ; with contributions by Christian F. Feest [and others].

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

3791318683
9783791318684

Other title:

Gifts and treasures from the South Seas
Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee : Die Göttinger Sammlung Cook/Forster [Parallel title]
Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee [Parallel title]

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

990.074 23

LOC classification:

GN36.G32 G6825 1998
JN663 .J35 1998

Contents:

Foreword -- Exchanged Value - The Winding Paths of the Objects -- Cook's Voyages and the European Discovery of the South Seas -- The Acquisition History of the Gottingen Collection -- The Gottingen Collection in an International Context -- Colour Plates -- The Regions -- Polynesia -- Tahiti and the Society Islands - An Archipelago as Seen in the Light of European Yearnings -- New Zealand - Land of the Long White Cloud -- Tonga - Entry into Complex Hierarchies -- Marquesas - Plagued by Misfortune -- Hawai'i - Ritual Encounters -- Melanesia -- The New Hebrides and New Caledonia - Confrontations as Mirrored by the Collected Ethnographic Items -- South and North America -- Tierra del Fuego -- The North-west Coast of America and the Arctic -- Catalogue -- Polynesia -- Tahiti and the Society Islands -- New Zealand -- Tonga -- Marquesas -- Hawai'i -- Melanesia -- New Hebrides -- New Caledonia -- South and North America -- Tierra del Fuego -- The North-west Coast and the Arctic -- Unattributed Objects -- Bibliography.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	990.074 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A245897B