'MOSTLY HARMLESS'?: MISSIONARIES, ADMINISTRATORS AND MATERIAL CULTURE ON THE COAST OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA.

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: September 9, 1999| Author: O'Hanlon, Michael | Copyright information

The present consensus in studies of material culture is that objects have mutating social lives responsive to context rather than any fixed, essential meanings. But Thomas, whose work has done much to consolidate this consensus, has recently proposed that the analysis of museum artefacts, whose pasts are seldom fully known, perforce requires a different tactic. He suggests that, methodologically, we need to credit such artefacts with the disturbing potency possessed by the strange or missin...

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