Recent Material Culture Studies on Borneo

Up to the latter part of the twentieth century, material culture studies, centered on the artefact per se, remained primarily descriptive. Artefacts collected by explorers, colonial personnel, geologists, or missionaries were stored in museums. Curators or scholars studied them, often with little i...

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出版年:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/moussons,
第一著者: Sellato, Bernard
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Anglais
出版事項: Moussons 2016
オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:Up to the latter part of the twentieth century, material culture studies, centered on the artefact per se, remained primarily descriptive. Artefacts collected by explorers, colonial personnel, geologists, or missionaries were stored in museums. Curators or scholars studied them, often with little information on their ethnic origins or their function and meaning among the people who produced them, thus providing little insight into those peoples’ social lives.The concept of material culture n...