Beschreibung:
This topical and conceptually innovative book proposes new perspectives on the theme of materiality which, since the 1980s, has animated work across and within disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.
Introduction-Contact tracing: The materiality of encounters 1. Mapping the once and future strait: Place, time, and Torres Strait from the sixteenth century to the Pleistocene 2. Re-presenting encounters: The drawings of Jean Piron 3. 'With the consent of the tribe': Marking lands on Tanna and Erromango, New Hebrides 4. Marginal history 5. Making the visual record of New Guinea: William G. Lawes's photographic encounters 6. Heads and 'cultures': A. C. Haddon, colonial exploration and the 'Strickland River' inscription 7. Smoke and mirrors in Arnhem Land: What expeditions tell us about the materiality of crosscultural encounters 8. On the banality of paperwork and the brutality of judicial bureaucracy in Myanmar