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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures

By Christopher Lee , Lara Lamb

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2023
ISBN
3031155785, 9783031155789
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8580088 bytes)
Pages
298\290
Time added
2024-04-22 21:33:27

Description

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley’s colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value. To understand this exchange, a nuanced history of the conditions of the exchange is necessary, which also allows a reconsideration of the colonial legacies that continue to affect the social and political worlds of people in the twenty-first century.

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