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

Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures
by: Lara Lamb (Author),Christopher Lee(Author)
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2 Jan. 2023
Language:English
Print Length:298 pages
ISBN-10:3031155785
ISBN-13:9783031155789
Book 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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