Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux 1791-1794

ISBN-13: 9789088905759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 340 str.

Bronwen Douglas; Fanny Wonu Veys; Billie Lythberg

O autorze

Douglas, Bronwen
Bronwen Douglas is honorary professor at the Australian National University in Canberra where she was fellow and senior fellow from 1997-2012. She was previously lecturer and senior lecturer at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) from 1971-1996.

A historian of science focussing on Oceania, her main research field is the interplay of global ideas of human difference, race, and geography in European encounters with particular Oceanian people, places, and agency. Her conceptual interests include materiality and use of visual materials, maps, and objects as ethnohistorical texts. Veys, Fanny Wonu
Dr. Fanny Wonu Veys is curator Oceania at the National Museum of World Cultures, a Dutch umbrella organization comprising the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden; the Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal; and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam. She has previously worked at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) (2004-2006, 2008-2009) and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (2006-2007) and at the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) (2007-2008). Lythberg, Billie
Dr. Billie Lythberg has been senior research fellow at the University of Auckland Business School (NZ) since 2013, working at the junction of economics, anthropology, and history. Her research interests include Oceanic sciences, arts, and oral histories; cross-cultural theories of value, valuables, and valuation; sustainability and environmental management; and social innovation.

She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA, UK) for the Artefacts of Encounter project (2010-2013). She is currently affiliated to Pacific Presences (MAA, UK) and Pacific Spaces (Auckland University of Technology, NZ) and an investigator on three Royal Society research projects at the University of Auckland: Te Ao Hou: Transforming Worlds in New Zealand 1900-1950, Ancient Futures: Late 18th- and Early 19th-century Tongan Arts and their Legacies, and Tangata Tiriti: Learning the Trick of Standing Upright Here.