Unpacking the Collection

Chapter 1 Networks, Agents and Objects: Frameworks for Unpacking Museum Collections

Chapter 2 “Suitable for Decoration of Halls and Billiard Rooms”: Finding Indigenous Agency in Historic Auction and Sale Catalogues

Chapter 3 Consuming Colonialism: Curio Dealers’ Catalogues, Souvenir Objects and Indigenous Agency in Oceania

Chapter 4 Plumes, Pipes and Valuables: The Papuan Artefact-Trade in Southwest New Guinea, 1845–1888

Chapter 5 Donors, Loaners, Dealers and Swappers: The Relationship behind the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Chapter 6 The Bekom Mask and the White Star: The Fate of Others’ Objects at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris

Chapter 7 Agency, Prestige and Politics: Dutch Collecting Abroad and Local Responses

Chapter 8 Crafting Hopi Identities at the Museum of Northern Arizona

Chapter 9 Pathways to Knowledge: Research, Agency and Power Relations in the Context of Collaborations Between Museums and Source Communities

Chapter 10 ‘Objects as Ambassadors’: Representing Nation Through Museum Exhibitions

Chapter 11 Seats of Power and Iconographies of Identity in Ecuador

Chapter 12 Hedley Takes a Holiday: Collections from Kanak People in the Australian Museum

Chapter 13 Death, Memory and Collecting: Creating the Conditions for Ancestralisation in South London Households