ABSTRACT Between 1888 and 1898 Sir William MacGregor, first Administrator of British New Guinea, orchestrated the collection of over 15,000 cultural objects. Using Appadurai's notion of ‘things-in-motion’, we trace the networked biography of the MacGregor collection through ‘regimes of value’ as it moved from the territory to museums in Australia and Britain and then repatriated to Papua New Guinea. We show how collection management practices in these institutions were shaped by attitudes about anthropology as an emerging discipline, British New Guinea, and Sir William himself. The social history of the MacGregor collections highlights the multifaceted roles that ethnographic collections have played in sustaining cultural values, strengthening personal ties, re-enforcing self-identity and supporting nation building.

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博物馆实践中的价值机制：英属新几内亚麦格雷戈实地收藏的网络传记

摘要 1888 年至 1898 年间，英属新几内亚首任行政长官威廉·麦格雷戈爵士 (Sir William MacGregor) 精心策划了 15,000 多件文物的收藏。使用 Appadurai 的“运动中的事物”的概念，我们通过“价值制度”追溯 MacGregor 收藏的网络传记，因为它从领土转移到澳大利亚和英国的博物馆，然后返回巴布亚新几内亚。我们展示了这些机构的馆藏管理实践是如何受到人类学作为新兴学科、英属新几内亚和威廉爵士本人的态度的影响的。MacGregor 藏品的社会历史突出了民族志藏品在维持文化价值观、加强个人联系、强化自我认同和支持国家建设方面所发挥的多方面作用。