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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: TextTextLanguage: English, German Publisher: Munich ; New York : Prestel, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 350 pages, 1 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 31 cmContent type:
  • 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-351).

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.

Text in English and German in parallel columns.

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